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

• Please be aware of an ongoing scam that is sending fake job offers from me and the department from the email address 'whalfond@usc.edu'.
• Paper to appear at ICSME 2026 "Assessing the User Interaction Cost of Keyboard Navigation in Web Applications"
• Paper to appear at ICST 2026 "Lost in Navigation: Detecting Keyboard Navigation Accessibility Issues in Web Pages"