Contact Info
Phone
(773) 834-3034
Office
Crerar 363

Since January 2017, I have been faculty in the University of Chicago’s Department of Computer Science. I started as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 2023. I also currently serve as our department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies.

I founded the UChicago SUPERgroup, an interdisciplinary research collective with dozens of incredible members. Our research spans computer security, privacy, human-computer interaction (HCI), and ethical AI. We are especially interested in developing data-driven methods for helping users make better security and privacy decisions, as well as making complex computer systems more usable for non-technical users. Our work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, as well as grants from Mozilla Research, Meta, Google, and the Data Transparency Lab.

You can read more about our work on my personal webpage or our lab webpage.

Research

Focus Areas: Security and Privacy; Ethical AI; Human-Computer Interaction

Research

Human Computer Interaction

Exploring the interfaces between people and technologies

Security & Privacy

Understanding and defending against emerging threats in our increasingly computational world

Labs & Groups

Systems Group

A vibrant, collaborative research community with diverse, synergistic research interests spanning systems, programming languages and software engineering, software and hardware...

SUPER (Security, Usability, & Privacy Education & Research) Group

Blase Ur
Focused on data-driven methods to improve online security and privacy and improving interaction for IoT and machine learning systems.

CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing

Andrew A. Chien
A dynamic community focused on reducing the fragility and complexity of computing systems, while also increasing their efficiency and lifetime.

Awards & Honors

2025
Computing Research Association (CRA-E) Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
2024
Best Paper Award, CHI
2021
CAREER Award
Quantrell award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2020
Best reviewer award
Allen Newell award for research excellence
2018
IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
2017
Best Paper Award, CHI

News & Events

UChicago CS News

University of Chicago Computer Science Researchers To Present Ten Papers at CHI 2024

May 06, 2024
UChicago CS News

UChicago Researchers Win Internet Defense Prize and Distinguished Paper Awards at USENIX Security

Sep 05, 2023
Past Event

Blase Ur (UChicago)-“Can Privacy Exist in a Data-Driven World?”

May 08, 2023
UChicago CS News

PhD Student Kevin Bryson Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Create Equitable Algorithmic Data Tools

Apr 14, 2023
UChicago CS News

Computer Science Displays Catch Attention at MSI’s Annual Robot Block Party

Apr 07, 2023
UChicago CS News

UChicago / School of the Art Institute Class Uses Art to Highlight Data Privacy Dangers

Apr 03, 2023
UChicago CS News

High School Students in College Prep Program Visit UChicago CS

Aug 23, 2022
UChicago CS News

UChicago CS Labs Join Museum of Science & Industry For Robot Block Party

Apr 20, 2022
Past Event

Blase Ur – Statistics for HCI Researchers

Mar 08, 2022
In the News

Asst. Prof. Blase Ur Discusses the “Metaverse” on Chicago Tonight

Nov 05, 2021
UChicago CS News

Five UChicago CS Students Named to Siebel Scholars 2022 Class

Sep 23, 2021
UChicago CS News

Asst. Prof. Blase Ur Receives Quantrell Award for Teaching Undergraduates

May 20, 2021
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