Lab Funding

The SAGE Lab graciously acknowledges the support of our sponsors, including theNational Science Foundation,Cisco Systems, andApple. Their support underwrites the students, infrastructure, and time that our research depends on.

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  CyberAI SFS: Educating Florida's Federal CyberAI Workforce for Secure AI in Space, Defense, and Modeling and Simulation

  • Award: National Science Foundation — Award DGE-2622846
  • Funding Amount: $1,955,351
  • Funding Period: August 2026 – July 2029

  Kevin Moran (Senior Personnel @ UCF)David Mohaisen (PI @ UCF)Yan Solihin (Co-PI @ UCF)Cliff Zou (Co-PI @ UCF)Yao Li (Co-PI @ UCF)Qian Lou (Co-PI @ UCF)

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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)