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, ensuring the accessibility of software user interfaces, developer-oriented techniques for reducing the power consumption of smartphone mobile applications, and software security.

Recent News and Publications

• I am recruiting multiple Ph.D. students for Fall 2025.
• Paper to appear at ISSTA 2024 "Feedback-Driven Automated Whole Bug Report Reproduction for Android Apps"
• Paper to appear at FSE 2024 "Mobile Bug Report Reproduction via Global Search on the App UI Models"
• Paper to appear at ICSE 2024 "Automatically Detecting Reflow Accessibility Issues in Responsive Web Pages"