Mia Mohammad Imran

Mia Mohammad Imran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the human side of software engineering — how developers communicate, how GenAI reshapes code quality, and how emotion and toxicity shape open-source communities. His methods combine empirical analysis, NLP, and LLMs to understand and improve software development at scale.

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Research

GenAI & Code Quality

How AI tools reshape development practice, introduce technical debt, and affect code quality in the wild.

Toxicity & Community Health

Understanding and predicting toxic conversations and derailment in open-source developer communities.

Emotion in Software Engineering

Using emotion as a lens to study developer communication and the struggles of novice programmers.

Bug Reports & Developer Tools

Improving software quality through better bug reporting, LLM-based input generation, and developer tooling.

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News

Jan 2026 Short paper accepted at TechDebt 2026: "TODO: Fix the Mess Gemini Created" — GenAI-Induced Self-Admitted Technical Debt. First paper of Mujahid — congrats!

Jan 2026 Paper accepted at MSR 2026 Mining Challenge: Where Do AI Coding Agents Fail? An Empirical Study of Failed Agentic Pull Requests in GitHub

Dec 2025 Paper accepted at ICSE 2026: Toxicity Ahead: Forecasting Conversational Derailment on GitHub

Dec 2025 Paper accepted at ICSE-SEET 2026: Learning Programming in Informal Spaces: Using Emotion as a Lens to Understand Novice Struggles on r/learnprogramming

Dec 2025 Extended abstract accepted at WSESE Workshop 2026 (ICSE Companion): OLAF: Towards Robust LLM-Based Annotation Framework in Empirical Software Engineering

Summer 2025 Best Reviewer Award at EASE 2025

March 2025 Paper accepted at FSE-IVR 2025: "Silent Is Not Actually Silent" — Toxicity on Bug Report Discussion

March 2025 Paper accepted at LLanMER 2025 (FSE Companion): LLPut: Investigating Large Language Models for Bug Report-Based Input Generation

Students

Current

Abdullah Al Mujahid PhD · 2025–
Fariha Tanjim Shifat PhD · 2025–

Undergraduate

Hariswar Baburaj 2026
Carson Kempf 2025
Piper Jeffries 2025

Mia Mohammad Imran is currently seeking collaborations with industry partners and enthusiastic undergraduate students. Contact him if interested. Note: not currently hiring PhD or Master’s students.

Reviewing and Community Services

Conference Committee:

ICSME 2026 (Visions and Emerging Results Track)
ESEC/FSE 2026 (Ideas, Visions and Reflections Track)
AIware 2026 (Main Track)
SANER 2026 (Short Papers and Posters Track)
EASE 2026 (Short Papers and Emerging Results Track)
SIGCSE TS 2026 (Program Committee Reviewer)
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)

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