Naman Gupta

Naman Gupta

PhD Student

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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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News:

  • Apr 2023: Runners-up talk at UW-Madison CS Research Symposium 2023.
  • Mar 2023: Awarded Student Support Travel Grant to attend NDSS 2023. Organized a Queer in Security and Privacy discussion group with Hieu.
  • Jan 2023: Teaching Assistant for CS400: Programming III.
  • Dec 2022: Paper accepted in USEC 2023.
  • Aug 2021: Started PhD in Computer Science at UW-Madison.
  • Jan 2020: Started Research Fellowship at MSR.
  • May 2017: Graduated from IIIT-Delhi.
  • Jan 2017: Paper accepted in IEEE VR 2017.
  • Jan 2017: Poster accepted in COMSNETS 2017.

Service:

  • External Reviewer – CHI LBW 2024, CSCW 2024
  • Organizer, LGBTQ+ in Security and Privacy group discussion at NDSS 2023.

Teaching:

  • Aug 2023/Jan 2024: Teaching Assistant for CS639: Capstone Projects (UW-Madison).
  • Jun 2023: Teaching Assistant for CS540: Artificial Intelligence (UW-Madison).
  • Jan 2016: Teaching Assistant for CS546:Mobile Computing (IIIT-Delhi & NPTEL).
  • Jan 2016: Instructor for Data Structures & Algorithms and Systems Programming (IIIT-Delhi).

Mentoring:

UW-Madison:

  • Kexin Zhang (CS, PhD, , 2023-)
  • Pooja Yadav (CS, MS, UW-Madison, 2023-)
  • Daniel Mu (CS, MS/PhD, UW-Madison, 2023-)
  • Mohammad Musa (CS, PhD, UW-Madison, 2023-)
  • Deep Patel (CS, PhD, UW-Madison, 2023-)
  • Mentor, Summer Mentorship Program for incoming graduate students.

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
Interests
  • Usable Privacy and Security
  • Marginalized Communities
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021 - Present

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • B. Tech in Computer Science, 2017

    IIIT-Delhi

Publications

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(2024). [REDACTED]. USENIX Security 2024 (Under Submission).

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(2024). A Critical Analysis of the Prevalence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in US College Students. CHI Extended Abstract (LBW) 2024.

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(2023). Analyzing Patterns and Behavior of Users When Detecting and Preventing Tech-enabled Stalking. Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2023.

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(2022). [REDACTED] automating program splitting formalization. 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2023.

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(2021). DICE*: A Formally Verified Implementation of DICE Measured Boot. 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21).

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(2017). A firewall for Internet of Things. 2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS).

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(2017). The effect of instructional priming on postural responses to virtual crowds. 2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments (VHCIE).

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