Blair MacIntyre

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Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Arts, Media and Design

Blair MacIntyre
  • Human–computer interaction
  • Computer graphics
  • Augmented and virtual reality
  • Privacy
  • PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University
  • MMath in Computer Science, University of Waterloo — Canada
  • BMath in Computer Science, University of Waterloo — Canada

Blair MacIntyre is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

MacIntyre teaches video games, computer graphics, augmented and virtual environments, ethics and privacy, and user interface software. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a professor of interactive computing at Georgia Tech, a principal research scientist at Mozilla, and global head of XR research at JPMorganChase.

MacIntyre’s work has been published in numerous journals, including IEEE ISMAR (2026), the Journal of Behavior and Information Technology (2026), ACM SIGCHI (2026),  ACM CSCW (2025), IEEE CG&A (2024), the Journal of Media Innovations (2021), Frontiers in Virtual Reality (2021), WebXR Developer Summit (2021), ACM Learning @ Scale (2020 and 2021), IEEE VR (2020), ACM SIGCHI Workshop on Social VR (2020), IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Conferencing (2020), IEEE VR Workshop on K-12 Embodied Learning through VR/AR (2019), Web3D (2019), and Workshop on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality for HRI (2018).  He is co-author of the book “Reality Media: Augmented and Virtual Reality” (2021).

Outside of teaching, MacIntyre enjoys skiing, playing hockey, esports (Overwatch and Valorant), and the bagpipes. He was born and raised in Canada.

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