Daniel Ogenrwot

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
— John 8:32

Hello! I am a Graduate Assistant and PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where I work in the Software Evolution (EVOL) Lab led by Professor John Businge.

Previously, I served as an Assistant Lecturer at Gulu University and as a Research Fellow with the AirQo Project, collaborating with Prof. Engineer Bainomugisha. I hold an MSc in Computer Science from Makerere University, Uganda, where I was mentored by Dr. Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende and Prof. Michel R.V. Chaudron.

Research Interests

My primary research interests are in Empirical Software Engineering and AI for Software Engineering.

Software Analytics
- Software bug localization & patching
- Software maintenance and reuse
- Software variants (social forks and divergent forks)
- Code & design smells detection
ML/AI
- Automatic program repair
- Agentic LLM for software systems
Data Mining
- Mining Software Repositories
- Graph mining
- Dependency network analysis
Others
- Software for AirQuality Monitoring

News

Jan, 2026	🎉 Paper accepted: How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests, The 23rd International Mining Software Repositories Conference, Co-located with ICSE 2026 , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oct, 2025	Selected for MSR 2026 Junior Program Committee at the 23rd International Mining Software Repositories Conference, Co-located with ICSE 2026.
Sep, 2025	🏅Distinguished Artifact Award at SCAM 2025 Co-located with ICSME 2025. Awarded $1,249.61 research grant by UNLV Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA)
Aug, 2025	🎉 Paper accepted: Structural and Connectivity Patterns in the Maven Central Software Dependency Network, The 34th International Conference on Software and Data Engineering (SEDE 2025)! , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 🎉 Paper accepted: Design and Evaluation of a Scalable Data Pipeline for AI-Driven Air Quality Monitoring in Low-Resource Settings, The 34th International Conference on Software and Data Engineering (SEDE 2025)! , New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Jul, 2025	🎉 Paper accepted: Refactoring-Aware Patch Integration Across Structurally Divergent Java Forks. The 25th IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2025), to be held in Auckland, New Zealand! 🇳🇿📄✨
Oct, 2024	Awarded $1,494 research grant by UNLV Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA)
Aug, 2024	Poster paper accepted: PatchTrack: Analyzing ChatGPT’s Impact on Software Patch Decision-Making in Pull Requests, The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024), Sacramento, California, USA.
May, 2024	Awarded the 2024-2025 Roy and Helen Kelsall Engineering Scholarship ($1,000) at the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, UNLV.