Urs Hengartner
Institution
University of Waterloo
Department
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Position
Associate professor
Country
Canada
Information
Urs Hengartner is an Associate Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he is a founding member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group. His research interests are in information privacy and computer and networks security, and his current research focuses on user authentication, including authenticating users based on their behavioural or physiological biometrics. He studies the use of machine learning for securing or attacking devices and services. He has also worked on privacy-preserving technologies for location-based services and mobile applications, privacy-preserving location verification technologies, genomic privacy, and end-to-end voter-verifiable voting systems. He has a degree in computer science from ETH Zurich and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon. He was Program Chair for ACM HotMobile 2022, Privacy Track Chair for PST 2014, Vice Technical Program Chair for PerCom 2014, and Co-workshop Chair for PerCom 2013.