Naman Gupta

Namaste! I am Naman (he/him), a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, advised by Prof. Rahul Chatterjee. Further, I am the Director of Outreach at the Madison Tech Clinic (MTC), a free and confidential community-engaged organization that has provided trauma-informed support to 140+ gender-based violence (GBV) survivors across Wisconsin, USA. I am a proud recipient of the Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship recognizing my advocacy work with the Madison Tech Clinic!

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). I aim to make technology safe, equitable, and supportive for everyone, especially historically marginalized communities who face intersecting axes of socio-political oppression and violence. Using interdisciplinary, intersectional, and community-engaged research methods, I examine both (a) how digital technologies enable gender-based and settler-colonial violence, and (b) how communities reclaim technologies for collective safety, healing, and liberation. I view academic research as a site of social transformation, one that re-imagines knowledge production through material community-led and justice-oriented interventions.

I am also a recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellows Program where I was advised by Kapil Vaswani at Confidential Computing and Technology for Empowerment group. I graduated from IIIT-Delhi with a Bachelors in Computer Science where I was advised by Prof. Vinayak Naik and Prof. Sachit Butail.

What have I been up to? 🔥

• Dec’25
  • Passed my PhD Thesis Proposal Exam! Officially, a PhD Candidate now. 🎊
• Nov’25
  • Invited to present at Native Nations Nursing, Helpers, and Healers Summit, 2025 🎊
  • Invited to the Program Committee for Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy USEC (NDSS) 2026. 🎊
• Oct’25
  • Invited to Lac Court Oreilles Reservation (LCO) to facilitate a workshop on technology-facilitated abuse for advocates. 🎊
  • Chaired a session on Reflecting on Methodology at CSCW’25! 🎊
  • Our paper received an Honorable Mention at CSCW’25! 🎊
• July’25
  • Facilitated training sessions on tech-faciliated abuse in collaboration with:
    • July 29: National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) Women are Sacred Conference (Milwaukee, WI): Invited by NIWRC to facilitate a workshop on technology-facilitated abuse! 🎊
    • July 11: ARC Community Services (Madison, WI)
    • July 2: Capacitity Building Consortium lead by National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) (Online)
  • Paper accepted in CCS ‘25! 🎊
• June’25
  • Awarded prestigious Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship recognizing my advocacy work with Madison Tech Clinic! 🎊
• March’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.

Publications

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Service

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• Session Chair (Program Committee) – CSCW’25.
• 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.

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

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