Sparsh Pandey

Welcome! I’m a prospective Ph.D. student applying to software engineering programs this fall.

I started research Summer 2025 at the Software Automation, Generation & Engineering (SAGE) Lab under Dr. Kevin Moran. My research explores how automated program repair, which works well on many logic bugs, performs on UI-centric bugs in mobile apps. I built much of DroidFixBench, a dataset of Android bugs, which led to a paper in ISSTA 26 that I co-presented with Dr. Moran. Since then, I have led a second project that is currently under submission and worked on a third running large-scale experiments. My first author submission will also serve as my undergraduate thesis. I hope to share it soon!

Outside of research, I have been working with some talented classmates to build a crochet chart reader for granny squares. These are pretty hard to read for beginners (including myself), so our goal is a tool that creates an interactive walkthrough for any granny square submitted.