University of Central Florida
Welcome to the SAGE Research Lab
The Software Automation, Generation, and Engineering (SAGE) Lab is a software engineering research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida.
The group is led by Dr. Kevin Moran and pursues academic research focused on creating useful automation for software developers, allowing them to write code efficiently and accurately.
Lab News
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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! -
December 2025
The first SAGE Lab Ph.D. student has graduated! Congrats to Arun Krishna Vajjala for defending his dissertation “Beyond the Pixel: AI-Augmented Programming Tools for the Design, Testing, and Generation of User Interfaces” and joining Apple as a Machine Learning Research Engineer. -
December 2025
One technical paper on Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs for Code published at NeurIPS'25! Congrats to our collaborators at GMU. -
December 2025
I have been recognized as a Rising Star by the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). -
August 2025
One technical paper on Automated Test Oracle Generation accepted to ASE'25! Congrats to SAGE Lab member Junayed Mahmud. -
July 2025
One tool-demo paper on UI-Enhanced Bug Localization published at ICSME'25! Congrats to the UCF Senior Design Team and SAGE Lab member Junayed Mahmud. -
January 2025
I have received the NSF CAREER Award for advancing the future of UI Engineering! Thank you to all my students and collaborators. -
January 2025
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December 2024
The SAGE Lab has received a research award from Apple's Human-Centered Machine Learning group for our work on UI Engineering!