Blase Ur

Blase Ur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago and has been its Director of Undergraduate Studies since July 2026. His personal website states that he joined the University of Chicago faculty in January 2017 and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in July 2023. The official UChicago profile confirms his title, public email, and office.

He founded and organizes the UChicago SUPERgroup, whose work spans computer security, privacy, human-computer interaction, usable security and privacy, and ethical AI. The group emphasizes data-driven methods for improving online security and privacy decisions and interaction with machine-learning and language-model systems. His current CV lists, among other honors, the USENIX Security 2026 Distinguished Paper Award, 2025 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, CHI 2024 Best Paper Award, NSF CAREER Award (2021), Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2021), and SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award (2018).

• July 2026–Present·University of Chicago·Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Computer Science
• July 2023–Present·University of Chicago·Associate Professor of Computer Science
• January 2022–June 2023·University of Chicago·Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• January 2017–December 2021·University of Chicago·Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• May–August 2013·Microsoft Research·Research Intern
• August 2007–August 2010·Rutgers University School of Engineering·Program Development Specialist; Senior Project Coordinator

• 2016·Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science·Ph.D. in Societal Computing
  • Also earned an M.S. in Computation, Organizations, and Society (2014); dissertation: Supporting Password-Security Decisions with Data.
• 2007·Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences·A.B. in Computer Science, Cum Laude

• USENIX Security 2026 Distinguished Paper Award.
• Computing Research Association (CRA-E) 2025 Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award.
• CHI 2024 Best Paper Award; USENIX Security 2023 Distinguished Paper Award.
• NSF CAREER Award (2021); Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2021).
• ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award (2018).

Sources: personal website, UChicago CS profile, current CV, and UChicago SUPERgroup. Public sources were checked on 2026-09-23; the Google Scholar link is supplied by his website, but the platform rate-limited this visit, so no live citation data is reported.