Hello! I am Naman (he/him), a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the MadS&P Security & Privacy and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) groups. With advise from Prof. Rahul Chatterjee, I critically examine digital safety through inter-disciplinary lenses in sociology such as feminism, rurality, and decoloniality. Specifically, I analyze the barriers faced by the marginalized communities facing gender-based violence when they interface with technology, and design interventions to support them. Further, I coordinate the Madison Tech Clinic to support survivors of IPV with their technical concerns.

Prior to PhD, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research (MSR), advised by Kapil Vaswani (Confidential Computing group) and Apurv Mehra (Technology for Empowerment or Emerging Markets (TEM)) groups. At MSR, 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:

• Aug'24
  • Presenting poster at SOUPS'24 and paper at USENIX Security'24!
  • Awarded student support grant for USENIX Security'24!
• May'24
  • Paper accepted at USENIX'24! 🎊
  • Presenting poster at CHI'24. See you there!
  • Passed PhD Qualifying exam! 🎊
• Apr'24
  • Presented poster at UW-Madison’s Day at WI State Capitol!
  • Presented work to WI DOJ MMIW Taskforce.
• Feb'24
  • Paper 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 travel grant to attend NDSS'23. Organized Queer in Security and Privacy discussion with Hieu.
• Dec'22: Paper accepted in NDSS'23 (Workshop on Usable Security)! 🎊
• Aug'21: Started PhD in Computer Science at UW-Madison.
• Jan'21: 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! 🎊

Service:

• Associate Chair (Program Committee) – CSCW'25.
• External Reviewer – EuroUSEC'24, CHI LBW'24, CSCW'24.
• Artefact Evaluation – NDSS'25.
• Poster Reviewer – IEEE S&P'24 (Oakland), SOUPS'24.
• Organizer – Queer in Security & Privacy event at NDSS'23.

Teaching:

• Aug'23 and Jan'24: Teaching Assistant for CS639: Capstone Projects (UW-Madison).
• Jun'23: Teaching Assistant for CS540: Artificial Intelligence (UW-Madison).
• Jan'16: Teaching Assistant for CS546:Mobile Computing (IIIT-Delhi & NPTEL).
• Jan'16: Instructor for Data Structures & Algorithms and Systems Programming (IIIT-Delhi).

Mentoring:

UW-Madison

• HCI Reading Group at UW-Madison – https://bit.ly/uwmadison-hcc-meetup
• Community Organizer for UW Madison Grad Student Discord and CS Department Slack. Join us!
• International Students – Kexin Zhang,Pooja Yadav, Daniel Mu, Mohammad Musa, Deep Patel

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