Naman Gupta

NOTE: I am on the Academic Job Market for postdoc/tenure-track positions starting from 2027 in Information, Computer Science, Communications, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Namaste! I am Naman (he/him), a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, advised by Prof. Rahul Chatterjee.

My research examines how technology enables gender-based interpersonal and structural violence (GBV), and yet, provide spaces of reclamation and radical possibility that fosters collective safety, resistance, and liberation among impacted communities. My research engages with many disciplines: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Security & Privacy (S&P), and Social/Critical Computing. I have made contributions across two interwoven threads: (1) designing interventions to support interpersonal violence survivors, and (2) research and design framework to help communities liberate from structural violence. I publish in top-tier HCI and S&P research venues, such as CHI, CSCW, DIS, USENIX Security, CCS, and, NDSS. I have also presented papers, panels, and, workshops at interdis- ciplinary venues like Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Wisconsin State Capitol, Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force Conference, Socialism Conference, Gayabii Gawiin, Women Are Sacred Conference, Reclaiming Our Love Conference, and, Native Nations Nursing, Helpers, and Healers Summit.

Embracing an advocacy-researcher practice, I direct the operations and outreach at Madison Tech Clinic (MTC), a trauma-informed intervention that has supported 180+ survivors with their digital safety needs. I have personally supported 40+ survivors and lead the outreach efforts to build partnerships with 24 GBV advocacy organizations, spreading MTC’s services across 32 counties in the state of Wisconsin, US. I have been awarded the Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship to recognize my research practice. And, I have formally trained over 200 health prac- titioners, lawyers, judges, and policymakers spanning across the nation (National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, National Network of Ending Domestic Violence, Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Nation), state (EndAbuse , The Network, and Mending the Sacred Hoop).

I acknowledge the Ho-Chunk Nation on whose ancestral lands I am grateful to work and live as a guest. I deeply respect the knowledge embedded in the Ho-Chunk’s custodianship of Teejop (DeJope) and recognize their continuing connection to land, water, and community here at UW-Madison.

What have I been up to? 🔥

• Sept’26:
  • Conducting a panel discussion on Technology and Human Trafficking at Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force Conference.
  • Invited to attend and present in the NextGen Session at Heidelberg Laureate Forum. I also lead an impromptu workshop on Planetary Crisis and AI which was very well received by laureats, journalists, young, and alumni researchers.
• Apr’26:
  • Hosted a workshop for GBV advocates at EndAbuseWI.
  • Invited talk at Antiracism Learning & Action in Neuroscience group at UW-Madison.
  • Doctoral Consortium accepted at DIS’26 🎊 Unable to attend due to visa issues, but my work was well received by the reviewers and attendees.
• Mar’26:
  • Won Best Paper Award at CHI’26 🎊
• Jan’26
  • Awarded Knapp Bequest Award, UW-Madison for the Decolonial Collective! 🎊
• 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 Top 5%, Honorable Mention for Best Paper at CSCW’25! 🎊

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

Workshops and Doctoral Consortium

• Naman Gupta, “Policrisis in the age of AI and Scientific Acceleration.” Selected workshop at Heidelberg Laureate Forum HLF 2026.
• Naman Gupta, Arjav Sharma, Foram Gathia, Indranila Bose, Enock Yeboah, Elena Aydarova, “Mending the Border-ed World Through Relationality, Repair and Refusal of Colonial Erasure.” Under review at Decolonial Special Interest Group Symposium at American Educational Research Association (AERA 2027).
• Naman Gupta. “Reclaiming Technology to Heal from Violence through Safety, Healing, and Liberation.” Doctoral Consortium, ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2026).
• Jasmine C. Foriest, Alicia DeVrio, Li Qiwei, Nimra Ahmed, Naman Gupta, Jensine Raihan, Franchesca Spektor, Justine Zhang, “Violence as a Boundary Object: Language, Power, and Design Justice.” Under review at ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2026).
• Ghadeer Awwad, Shreya Chowdhary, Palak Dudani, Jasmine C. Foriest, David Gamba, Naman Gupta, Eugene Kim, Freddy Reiber, “Counter-Computing: Digital Resistances and Global Solidarities.” Under review at ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2026.
• Sophie Stephenson, Meghna Gupta, Miranda Wei, Naman Gupta, Franziska Roesner, Mary Jean Amon, Apu Kapadia, Rahul Chatterjee, “Digital Trust and Safety in the Context of Interpersonal Relationships.”, Special Interest Group, Rejected at ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025.
• Rose Ceccio, Naman Gupta, Majed Almansoori, Rahul Chatterjee, “Analyzing Patterns and Behavior of Users When Detecting and Preventing Tech-enabled Stalking.” Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy. Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS 2023).
• Naman Gupta and Rahul Chatterjee, “Decolonizing Digital Safety Research: Safety for Who? Safety from What?.”, Workshop proposal for the workshop “What is Safety?: Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms. ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2024).

Service

Number of papers reviewed in (X). 🏅 Special recognition for an outstanding review.

• 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 – Julia Nonnenkamp, Kexin Zhang, Pooja Yadav, Daniel Mu, Mohammad Musa, Deep Patel
• Undergraduate Students – Emily Wu, Justin Yeung
• Organizer: Decolonial Collective at UW-Madison. Email me to join!
• Organizer: HCI Reading Group at UW-Madison
• Mentor, UW-Madison CS Graduate Student Mentorship Program
• 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