2026 William G. J. Halfond: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	37	10636	10338	4449	4265	87	6737

Overview

William G. J. Halfond is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their work predominantly spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Information Systems, Signal Processing, Software, Human Factors and Ergonomics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The research topics explored by Halfond include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Mobile and Web Applications, Software Engineering Research, Web Data Mining and Analysis, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Digital Accessibility for Disabilities, and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems.

Halfond has contributed publications to several academic venues, including:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
Software Testing Verification and Reliability

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Halfond include:

"ReCDroid+: Automated End-to-End Crash Reproduction from Bug Reports for Android Apps" (2022) in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
"Automated Repair of Size-Based Inaccessibility Issues in Mobile Applications" (2021) in the 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
"Effective automated repair of internationalization presentation failures in web applications using style similarity clustering and search-based techniques" (2020) in Software Testing Verification and Reliability
"Mobile Bug Report Reproduction via Global Search on the App UI Model" (2024) in Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
"Automatically Defining Game Action Spaces for Exploration Using Program Analysis" (2023) in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment

Frequent collaborators include Tingting Yu, Zhaoxu Zhang, Yu Zhao, Robert A. Winn, and K.D. Ryu.

Best Publications

A Classification of SQL-Injection Attacks and Countermeasures

William G.J. Halfond;Jeremy Viegas;Alessandro Orso

954
Citations
AMNESIA: analysis and monitoring for NEutralizing SQL-injection attacks

William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso

836
Citations
PUMA: programmable UI-automation for large-scale dynamic analysis of mobile apps

Shuai Hao;Bin Liu;Suman Nath;William G.J. Halfond

430
Citations
Estimating mobile application energy consumption using program analysis

Shuai Hao;Ding Li;William G. J. Halfond;Ramesh Govindan

372
Citations
Using positive tainting and syntax-aware evaluation to counter SQL injection attacks

William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso;Panagiotis Manolios

304
Citations
WASP: Protecting Web Applications Using Positive Tainting and Syntax-Aware Evaluation

W.G.J. Halfond;A. Orso;P. Manolios

279
Citations
Calculating source line level energy information for Android applications

Ding Li;Shuai Hao;William G. J. Halfond;Ramesh Govindan

265
Citations
Combining static analysis and runtime monitoring to counter SQL-injection attacks

William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso

198
Citations
An Empirical Study of the Energy Consumption of Android Applications

Ding Li;Shuai Hao;Jiaping Gui;William G. J. Halfond

196
Citations
An investigation into energy-saving programming practices for Android smartphone app development

Ding Li;William G. J. Halfond

179
Citations
Preventing SQL injection attacks using AMNESIA

William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso

167
Citations
Making web applications more energy efficient for OLED smartphones

Ding Li;Angelica Huyen Tran;William G. J. Halfond

155
Citations
Estimating Android applications' CPU energy usage via bytecode profiling

Shuai Hao;Ding Li;William G. J. Halfond;Ramesh Govindan

142
Citations
Truth in advertising: the hidden cost of mobile ads for software developers

Jiaping Gui;Stuart Mcilroy;Meiyappan Nagappan;William G. J. Halfond

133
Citations
Automated energy optimization of HTTP requests for mobile applications

Ding Li;Yingjun Lyu;Jiaping Gui;William G. J. Halfond

129
Citations
Improving test case generation for web applications using automated interface discovery

William G. J. Halfond;Alessandro Orso

114
Citations
Precise interface identification to improve testing and analysis of web applications

William G.J. Halfond;Saswat Anand;Alessandro Orso

101
Citations
ReCDroid: automatically reproducing Android application crashes from bug reports

Yu Zhao;Tingting Yu;Ting Su;Yang Liu

82
Citations
Command-Form Coverage for Testing Database Applications

W.G.J. Halfond;A. Orso

76
Citations
Detecting display energy hotspots in Android apps

Mian Wan;Yuchen Jin;Ding Li;Jiaping Gui

75
Citations
Integrated energy-directed test suite optimization

Ding Li;Yuchen Jin;Cagri Sahin;James Clause

72
Citations
How does code obfuscation impact energy usage

Cagri Sahin;Mian Wan;Philip Tornquist;Ryan McKenna

69
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Orso Georgia Institute of Technology

Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California

Phil McMinn University of Sheffield

Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila

Meiyappan Nagappan University of Waterloo

Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California

John Grundy Monash University

Sandeep K. S. Gupta Arizona State University

Suman Nath Microsoft (United States)

Fan Bai General Motors (United States)

External Links

Personal website of William G. J. Halfond Google Scholar page

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