Kevin Moran
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, where he directs the SAGE Research Lab and is affiliated with the CyberSP Cluster.
About
Kevin Moran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, where he directs the SAGE Research Lab. He was previously an Assistant Professor at George Mason University from 2020–2023. He earned his B.A. in Physics with a Computer Science minor from the College of the Holy Cross (2013), and his M.S. (2015) and Ph.D. (2018) in Computer Science from William & Mary, advised by Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk.
His main research interests include software engineering, artificial intelligence, and computer security. In particular, he studies how to make large language models (LLMs) and agents applied to software engineering tasks more reliable, usable, and trustworthy. Recently, he has taken particular interest in how software engineering agents function in user interface (UI) engineering. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and multiple Distinguished Paper Awards.
Latest News
- July 2026: The third SAGE Lab Ph.D. student has graduated! Congrats to SM Hasan Mansur for defending his dissertation “Automated User Interface Design and Understanding through Multimodal Artificial Intelligence”. Hasan joins Stephen F. Austin State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2026!
- July 2026: One research-track paper entitled “Automated Program Repair for UI-centric Android Bugs: How Far are We?” accepted to ISSTA'26! Congrats to SAGE Lab members Junayed, Sparsh, and Atish!
- June 2026: One industry-track paper entitled “Lost in Transmission: An Information Theoretic Account of Unsupervised Software Traceability” accepted to ICSME'26!
- June 2026: One vision paper entitled “Test Coverage Analysis of Agentic Pull Requests” accepted to ICSME'26! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Atish!
- May 2026: The second SAGE Lab Ph.D. student has graduated! Congrats to Junayed Mahmud for defending his dissertation “Multimodal Learning for Automated Bug Report Management”. Junayed joins Deloitte as a Machine Learning Engineer!
- May 2026: One research paper entitled “Fusing UI Structure and Semantics for Feature-oriented App Screen Retrieval and Clustering” accepted to ICSME'26! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Arun!
- May 2026: One journal paper entitled “Reassessing Code Authorship Attribution in the Era of Large Language Models” accepted to TOSEM! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Atish!
- March 2026: I have been recognized as a “Reach for the Stars” awardee by UCF for 2026 — the university's highest honor given to pre-tenure faculty. Thanks UCF!