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

CAREER: Enhanced User Interface Engineering via Automated Semantic Screen Understanding

National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2441355

Kevin Moran (Sole PI @ UCF) May 2025 – April 2030
Engineering Better UIs via Collaboration with Screen-aware Foundation Models

Apple Human-Centered Machine Learning Research Award

Kevin Moran (PI @ UCF) April 2025 – April 2026
Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Towards Understandability and Interpretability for Neural Language Models of Code

National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2423813

Kevin Moran (PI @ UCF)Ziyu Yao (Co-PI @ GMU)Denys Poshyvanyk (Co-PI @ W&M) April 2024 – September 2027
Neural-based Code Search & Refactoring

Systems Advanced Security Research Group Grant

Kevin Moran (PI) August 2022 – August 2023
Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Enabling Data-Driven Security and Safety Analyses for Cyber-Physical Systems

National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2132285

Kevin Moran (PI @ GMU)Adwait Nadkarni (PI @ W&M)Denys Poshyvanyk (Co-PI @ W&M) January 2022 – December 2024
Automated Code Review for Measuring and Improving Software Maintainability

Systems Advanced Security Research Group Grant

Kevin Moran (PI) August 2021 – August 2022
SHF: Small: Towards a Holistic Causal Model for Continuous Software Traceability

National Science Foundation — Award CCF-2007246

Kevin Moran (PI @ GMU)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M) October 2020 – September 2023
Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Bug Report Management 2.0

National Science Foundation — Award CCF-1955853

Kevin Moran (PI @ GMU)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M)Oscar Chaparro (PI @ W&M)Andrian Marcus (PI @ UT Dallas) October 2020 – September 2024
EAGER: Mapping Future Synergies between Deep Learning and Software Engineering

National Science Foundation — Award CCF-1927679

Kevin Moran (Co-PI)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M) July 2019 – June 2020
Identifying and Tracing Security-Related Software Requirements

Cisco Systems Advanced Security Research Group Grant

Kevin Moran (Co-PI)Denys Poshyvanyk (PI @ W&M) July 2019 – July 2020

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.