SAGE Lab

Dr. Moran directs the SAGE Research Lab, housed in the University of Central Florida's Department of Computer Science. The mission of the SAGE Lab is to pursue a more complete understanding of how engineers develop software, and to build the next generation of intelligent developer tools to help facilitate the software engineering process.

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Research Funding

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  Reach for the Stars Faculty Grant

  • Award: University of Central Florida — Reach for the Stars Award
  • Funding Amount: $10,000
  • Funding Period: August 2026 – July 2028

  Kevin Moran (Sole PI @ UCF)

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  CAREER: Enhanced User Interface Engineering via Automated Semantic Screen Understanding

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2441355
  • Funding Period: May 2025 – April 2030

  Kevin Moran (Sole PI @ UCF)

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  Engineering Better UIs via Collaboration with Screen-aware Foundation Models

  • Award: Apple Human-Centered Machine Learning Research Award
  • Funding Period: April 2025 – April 2026

  Kevin Moran (PI @ UCF)

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  Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Towards Understandability and Interpretability for Neural Language Models of Code

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2423813
  • Funding Period: April 2024 – September 2027

  Kevin Moran (PI @ UCF)Ziyu Yao (Co-PI @ GMU)Denys Poshyvanyk (Co-PI @ W&M)

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  Neural-based Code Search & Refactoring

  • Award: Cisco Systems Advanced Security Research Group Grant
  • Funding Amount: $50,000
  • Funding Period: August 2022 – August 2023

  Kevin Moran (PI)

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  Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Enabling Data-Driven Security and Safety Analyses for Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2132285
  • Funding Amount: $998,979
  • Funding Period: January 2022 – December 2024

  Kevin Moran (PI @ GMU)Adwait Nadkarni (PI @ W&M)Denys Poshyvanyk (Co-PI @ W&M)

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  Automated Code Review for Measuring and Improving Software Maintainability

  • Award: Cisco Systems Advanced Security Research Group Grant
  • Funding Amount: $50,000
  • Funding Period: August 2021 – August 2022

  Kevin Moran (PI)

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  SHF: Small: Towards a Holistic Causal Model for Continuous Software Traceability

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2007246
  • Funding Amount: $500,000
  • Funding Period: October 2020 – September 2023

  Kevin Moran (PI @ GMU)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M)

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  Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Bug Report Management 2.0

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award CCF-1955853
  • Funding Amount: $1,200,000
  • Funding Period: October 2020 – September 2024

  Kevin Moran (PI @ GMU)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M)Oscar Chaparro (PI @ W&M)Andrian Marcus (PI @ UT Dallas)

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  EAGER: Mapping Future Synergies between Deep Learning and Software Engineering

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award CCF-1927679
  • Funding Amount: $82,828
  • Funding Period: July 2019 – June 2020

  Kevin Moran (Co-PI)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M)

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  Identifying and Tracing Security-Related Software Requirements

  • Award: Cisco Systems Advanced Security Research Group Grant
  • Funding Amount: $100,000
  • Funding Period: July 2019 – July 2020

  Kevin Moran (Co-PI)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M)

Past Research Projects

Selected projects from Dr. Moran's dissertation research. For current work, see the SAGE Lab website.

• ReDraw Using AI to automatically prototype mobile applications by converting UI images into accurate code via repository mining, dynamic analysis, and deep learning.
• MDroid+ Enabling empirically-driven mutation testing for Android apps with a comprehensive, domain-specific set of mutation operators.
• Fusion Leveraging static and dynamic program analysis to improve mobile bug reporting and produce higher-quality reports with less reporter effort.
• ODBR On-device bug reporting for Android: recording and replaying input gesture and sensor event streams that precisely describe a bug.
• GVT Automatically detecting and reporting GUI design violations between mobile app mock-ups and their implementations.
• GCat Automated summarization of GUI changes across app versions using computer vision and natural language generation.
• CrashScope Effective automated testing for Android that generates expressive, reproducible crash reports with replayable scripts.

Press Coverage

• Smart Home Security — The Washington Post
• Smart Home Security — Quartz
• Smart Home Security — NewsRadio WINA
• CrashScope — i-Programmer
• Fusion — The Register
• Fusion — IEEE Software Blog
• SEMERU Lab — W&M News

Other Software & Side Projects

• OpenTerm-Mac — A small Mac app that opens a terminal at the current Finder directory.
• NewFile-Mac — A Finder toolbar app that creates a new text file in the current directory.
• OmniFocus Calendar Sync — An AppleScript that syncs OmniFocus tasks to the macOS Calendar app.