Florian Schaub

Florian Schaub is an assistant professor of Information and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on investigating and supporting people’s privacy and security behavior and decision making in complex socio-technical systems. His research interests span privacy, human-computer interaction, and emergent technologies. Schaub holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Ulm, Germany, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. His research has been honored with the 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and with best paper awards at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing and the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Schaub is a steering committee member for the USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR). He is a recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award.