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Kevin Moran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida where he is also affiliated with the Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster (CyberSP) and directs the SAGE Research Lab. He was previously an Assistant Professor at George Mason University from 2020-2023. He graduated with his B.A. in Physics with a Computer Science Minor from the College of the Holy Cross in 2013. He graduated with his M.S. in Computer Science from William & Mary in 2015, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from William & Mary in 2018, advised by Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk. His main research interests include software engineering, security, maintenance, and evolution with a focus on mobile platforms. Additionally, he explores applications of machine learning to data mined from software repositories in order to build practical automated tools for developers.

Publications

This page lists Dr. Moran’s papers published in a range of top-tier software engineering and computer security venues.

Publications

 

* Underlined authors are supervised students at GMU & UCF

Conference & Journal Publications

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  • Learning to Identify Security-Related Issues Using Convolutional Neural Networks
    ‣ David N. Palacio, Daniel McCrystal, Kevin Moran, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Denys Poshyvanyk and Chris Shenefiel
    ‣ Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’19), Cleveland, Ohio, September 30th-October 4th 2019, to appear, 5 pages (56% Acceptance Rate)
    ‣ [pdf | data]

  • Assessing the Quality of the Steps to Reproduce in Bug Reports
    ‣ ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 🏆
    ‣ Oscar Chaparro, Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Jing Lu, Kevin Moran, Andrian Marcus, Massimiliano Di Penta, Denys Poshyvanyk and Vincent Ng
    ‣ Proceedings of the 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’19), Tallinn, Estonia, August 26th-30th 2019, to appear, 12 pages (24% Acceptance Rate)
    ‣ [pdf | data]

  • Guigle: A GUI Search Engine for Android Apps 
    ‣ Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas, Kevin Moran, Michele Tufano, Zichang Liu, Linyong Nan, Zhehan Shi and Denys Poshyvanyk
    ‣ Proceedings of the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’19), Montreal, QC, Canada, May 25th-29th 2019, to appear, 4 pages (47% Acceptance Rate)
    ‣ [pdf | website]

  • A Study of Data Store-Based Home Automation
    ‣ CODASPY’19 Best Paper Award 🏆
    ‣ Kaushal Kafle, Kevin Moran, Sunil Manandhar, Adwait Nadkarni and Denys Poshyvanyk
    ‣ Proceedings of the The 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY’19), Dallas, Texas, March 25th-27th, 2019, to appear, 12 pages (23% Acceptance Rate)
    ‣ [pdf]

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