Naman Gupta | Madison Tech Clinic at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hello! I am Naman (he/him), a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research combines interdisciplinary perspectives through collaborations with MadS&P, Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Overcoming Trauma (PIVOT) Lab, Native American Women Thriving through Innovative Violence Prevention and Empowerment (NATIVE) Lab and Sexual Violence Research Initative (SVRI). With advise from Prof. Rahul Chatterjee, I am committed to advancing the safety and well-being of the marginalized populations who face gender-based violence (GBV) by amplifying their silenced voices. Rooted in cultural sensitivity, my work empowers survivors by fostering safety, healing, and resilience. Further, I coordinate Madison Tech Clinic and lead the outreach program with our rural and indigenous partner organizations in Wisconsin, USA.

Prior to PhD, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research, advised by Kapil Vaswani at Confidential Computing and Technology for Empowerment group. I worked on a formally verified boot protocol, a hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and an offline streaming platform for low-income and people with a reduced tech literacy in rural India.

I graduated from IIIT-Delhi with a Bachelors in Computer Science where I was advised by Prof. Vinayak Naik and Prof. Sachit Butail.

News

Jun’25
- Awarded prestigious Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship recognizing my advocacy work with Madison Tech Clinic! 🎊
Mar’25
- Participated in a panel on tech abuse at The Network’s “Reclaiming Our Love: Social Justice & Domestic Violence” Conference in Chicago.
- Paper accepted in CSCW ‘25! 🎊
Feb’25: Guest lecture for PSYCH311: Sexual Violence Research and Advocacy.
Jan’25: Started Decolonial Collective at UW-Madison. The collective is a reading group and sharing space for scholars interested in decolonial thought.

- **Dec'24** - Invited talk on *Technology-facilitated Abuse* in [Psi Chi, Psychology Career Conversations Workshop](https://psych.wisc.edu/event/career-conversations-workshop/) at UW-Madison. - Conducting an advocate training workshop on *Technology-facilitated Abuse* at [Soujourner Family Peace Center, Milwaukee, WI](https://techclinic.cs.wisc.edu/). - Accepted review invitation for the Violence Against Women Journal. 🎊 - **Nov'24** - Going to the [Midwest Security Workshop 2024](https://www.midwestsecurityworkshop.com/agenda.html) at Purdue University. See you there! - Talk at CS Research Symposium, UW-Madison 2024. - **Aug'24** - Excited to join the program committee as an Associate Chair for CSCW'25! 🎊 - Organized a focus group on *Technology-facilitated Colonial Violence* at USENIX Security'24. - Awarded student grant to present at SOUPS'24 and USENIX Security'24! 🎊 - **May'24** - [Paper](assets/files/papers/usenix24.pdf) accepted at USENIX'24! 🎊 - Presented [poster](assets/files/papers/chilbw24.pdf) at CHI'24. - Passed PhD Qualifying exam! 🎊 - **Apr'24** - Presented poster at [UW-Madison’s Day at WI State Capitol!](https://staterelations.wisc.edu/uw-madison-day-at-the-capitol/) - Presented work to [WI DOJ MMIW Taskforce](https://www.doj.state.wi.us/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-task-force). - **Feb'24** - [Paper](assets/files/papers/chilbw24.pdf) accepted at CHI'24 (Late Breaking Work)! 🎊 - Paper accepted at Privacy Law Scholars Conference'24 workshop! 🎊 - **Apr'23**: Runners-up talk at UW-Madison CS Research Symposium'23. 🎊 - **Mar'23**: Awarded a student grant to attend NDSS'23. Organized *Queer in Security *and* Privacy* discussion with [Hieu Le](https://levanhieu.com/). - **Dec'22**: [Paper](assets/files/papers/usec23.pdf) accepted in NDSS'23 (Workshop on Usable Security)! 🎊 - **Aug'21**: Started PhD in Computer Science at UW-Madison. - **Jan'21**: (assets/files/papers/272306/)Paper] accepted at USENIX'21! 🎊 - **Jan'20**: Started Research Fellowship at MSR. - **May'17**: Graduated from IIIT-Delhi. - **Jan'17** - Paper accepted in IEEE VR'17! 🎊 - Poster accepted in COMSNETS'17! 🎊

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

[redacted]: Data Exports and Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Julia Nonnenkamp, Naman Gupta, Abhimanyu Gupta, and Rahul Chatterjee

Under submission in Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025

Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin: Surfacing Barriers Within and Beyond the Courtroom

Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, and Rahul Chatterjee

Accepted in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2025

“I really just leaned on my community for support”: Barriers, Challenges, and Coping Mechanisms Used by Survivors of Technology–Facilitated Abuse to Seek Social Support

Naman Gupta, Kate Walsh, Sanchari Das, Rahul Chatterjee

USENIX Security 2024

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A Critical Analysis of the Prevalence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in US College Students

Naman Gupta, Sanchari Das, Kate Walsh, Rahul Chatterjee

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Late Breaking Work) 2024

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Analyzing Patterns and Behavior of Users When Detecting and Preventing Tech-enabled Stalking

Rose Ceccio*, Naman Gupta*, Majed Almansoori*, Rahul Chatterjee

Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) at Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) 2023

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DICE*: A Formally Verified Implementation of DICE Measured Boot

Zhe Tao, Aseem Rastogi, Naman Gupta, Kapil Vaswani, Aditya V. Thakur

USENIX Security 2021

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The effect of instructional priming on postural responses to virtual crowds

Naman Gupta*, Anmol Singh*, Sachit Butail

IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments (VHCIE) 2017

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A firewall for Internet of Things

Naman Gupta*, Srishti Sengupta*, Vinayak Naik

International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) 2017

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Service

Number of papers reviewed in (X).

Associate Chair (Program Committee) – CSCW’25 (8).
Reviewer – EuroUSEC’24 (1), CHI LBW’24 (1), CSCW’24 (1) 🏅, Journal of Violence Against Women (VAW)(2024) (1).
Artifact Evaluation – NDSS’25 (1) 🏅.
Poster Committee – IEEE S\&P’24 (4) 🏅, SOUPS’24 (1) 🏅.
Organizer – Queer in Security & Privacy event at NDSS’23.

🏅 Special recognition for an outstanding review.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for CS639: Capstone Projects (UW-Madison).
Teaching Assistant for CS540: Artificial Intelligence (UW-Madison).
Teaching Assistant for CS546:Mobile Computing (IIIT-Delhi & NPTEL).
Instructor for Data Structures & Algorithms and Systems Programming (IIIT-Delhi).

Mentoring

UW-Madison

Graduate Students – Kexin Zhang, Pooja Yadav, Daniel Mu, Mohammad Musa, Deep Patel
Undergraduate Students – Emily Wu, Justin Yeung
Mentor, UW-Madison CS Graduate Student Mentorship Program
Officer, Student’s Chapter of ACM (SACM)
Organizer: HCI Reading Group at UW-Madison
Community Organizer for UW Madison Grad Student Discord. Join us!

IIIT-Delhi

Co-founder for Project Mentorship Program for 200+ freshman students.
Administrator, Byld, a programming club at IIIT-Delhi.
Mentor, Rails Girls Summer of Code 2017.
Organizing Team, 1st Blockhain Summit in India
Judge, Google’s Code to Learn Contest 2016