Hello! I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison collaborating with the MadS&P Security & Privacy and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI). I am advised by Prof. Rahul Chatterjee and closely collaborate with Prof. Kate Walsh.
I am interested in research at the intersection of digital safety and sociology through a feminist, trauma-informed, decolonial lens. Specifically, I analyze the barriers faced by the historically and socio-culturally marginalized communities when they interface with digital technology. I care about reclaiming agency, privacy and anonymity from the hands of technology corporate overlords. Further, I co-coordinate Madison Tech Clinic with Rahul and Sophie 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)) group. 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 in 2017 with a Bachelors in Computer Science where I collaborated with Prof. Vinayak Naik and Prof. Sachit Butail.
Pronunciation: Na-man. First name rhymes with “summon”.
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PhD in Computer Science, 2021 - Present
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B. Tech in Computer Science, 2017
IIIT-Delhi