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. My particular focus is in various aspects of bug reports, code quality, and novice programmers.

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I’m currently seeking collaborations with industry partners and enthusiastic undergraduate students to join my research team. Please contact me if you are interested.

News

– Dec 2025: Our paper titled Toxicity Ahead: Forecasting Conversational Derailment on GitHub got accepted at ICSE 2026 (Research Track)!

– Dec 2025: Our paper titled Learning Programming in Informal Spaces: Using Emotion as a Lens to Understand Novice Struggles on r/learnprogramming got accepted at ICSE-SEET 2026 (Education Researech Track)!

– Dec 2025: Our extended abstract titled OLAF: Towards Robust LLM-Based Annotation Framework in Empirical Software Engineering got accepted at WSESE Workshop 2026 (ICSE Companion)!

– Summer 2025: Best Reviewer award at EASE 2025!

– March 2025: Our paper titled “Silent Is Not Actually Silent”: An Investigation of Toxicity on Bug Report Discussion got accepted at FSE-IVR 2026 (Idea Vision Track)!

– March 2025: Our paper titled LLPut: Investigating Large Language Models for Bug Report-Based Input Generation got accepted at LLanMER 2025 (FSE Companion)!

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Journals: Reviewer at journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Automated Software Engineering.

Prospective students

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

Not Hiring PhD or Master’s students.

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.

When you are emailing, here is a guideline you can follow: Link

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