Imran @ Missouri S&T

Mia Mohammad Imran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research interests encompass Software Engineering, Empirical Study, Machine Learning, LLMs, and NLP.

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Title Conference/Journal Document Repository
"Silent Is Not Actually Silent": An Investigation of Toxicity on Bug Report Discussion FSE 2025 (IVR Track) ArXiV Replication
Understanding and Predicting Derailment in Toxic Conversations on GitHub Submitted ArXiV Replication
Towards Effective Developer Communication in Open Source Software via Emotional Awareness PhD Dissertation PDF Link
Uncovering the Causes of Emotions in Software Developer Communication Using Zero-shot LLMs ICSE 2024 PDF Repo
Shedding Light on Software Engineering-specific Metaphors and Idioms ICSE 2024 PDF Repo
Emotion Classification In Software Engineering Texts: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-trained Transformers Language Models NLBSE 2024 PDF Repo
Incivility in Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Annotated Dataset of Locked GitHub Issue Threads MSR 2024 PDF Repo
Data Augmentation for Improving Emotion Recognition in Software Engineering Communication ASE 2022 PDF Repo
Using Clarification Questions to Improve Software Developers’ Web Search Information and Software Technology 2022 PDF Repo
Automatically Selecting Follow-up Questions for Deficient Bug Reports MSR 2021 PDF Repo
Semester Course
Spring, 2025 CS 4090: SE Capstone I
Spring, 2025 CS 4091: SE Capstone II

Conference Committee: AI IDE 2025 (FSE Workshop), EASE 2025 (Short Paper Track), EASE 2025 (Learnings & Reflections within the Learnings/Reflections of Evaluation and Assessment projects in Software Engineering-track)

Not Hiring PhD or Master’s students right now.

If you’re interested in joining my research team, please contact me at imranm@mst.edu. In your email, include a brief introduction, interests and attach your CV (if you can). I am currently recruiting students at all levels, from undergraduate and masters (if you are already in Missouri S&T), to graduate. If you don’t hear back from me within a week, feel free to send a follow-up message as things can get busy.

If you are already a student at Missouri S&T, please feel free to email me to talk about potential research opportunities.

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