Contact Information

Email: halfond at usc dot edu
Phone: (213) 740-1239
Office: SAL 330

William Halfond is a professor of computer science at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Halfond's research is in software engineering in the area of program analysis and software testing. His research work focuses on improving quality assurance for web applications, developer-oriented techniques for reducing the power consumption of smartphone mobile applications, and software security.

Recent News and Publications

• Paper to appear at ISSTA 2023 "Automatically Reproducing Android Bug Reports Using Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning"
• Paper to appear at CHI 2023 "BAGEL: An Approach to Automatically Detect Navigation-Based Web Accessibility Barriers for Keyboard Users"
• Paper to appear at ICSE 2023 "Detecting Dialog-Related Keyboard Navigation Failures in Web Applications"
• I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2023.
• Congratulations to my student, Sasha Volokh, for winning a Best Paper Award at FDG 2022
• Paper to appear at FDG 2022 "Static Analysis for Automated Identification of Valid Game Actions During Exploration"
• Paper to appear at ICST 2022 "Automated Detection of TalkBack Interactive Accessibility Failures in Android Applications."