Naman Gupta

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 psychology, gender & women studies, and nursing: Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Overcoming Trauma (PIVOT) Lab and Sexual Violence Research Initative (SVRI), and human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer security & privacy (S&P): MadS&P. 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

• Feb’25
  • Our work on digital evidence for tech abuse was conditionally accepted in CSCW ‘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 at UW-Madison.
  • Conducting an advocate training workshop on Technology-facilitated Abuse at Soujourner Family Peace Center, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Accepted review invitation for the Violence Against Women Journal. 🎊
• Nov’24
  • Going to the Midwest Security Workshop 2024 at Purdue University. See you there!
  • Talk at CS Research Symposium, UW-Madison 2024.
• Aug’24
  • Excited to jhoin 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 accepted at USENIX’24! 🎊
  • Presented poster at CHI’24.
  • 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 student grant to attend NDSS’23. Organized Queer in Security *and Privacy* discussion with Hieu Le.
• Dec’22:
  • Paper accepted in NDSS’23 (Workshop on Usable Security)! 🎊

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

Service

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• 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