Naman Gupta

Hello! I am Naman (he/him), a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Further, I am the Director of Outreach at the Madison Tech Clinic (MTC), a free and confidential community-engaged organization that has provided trauma-informed support to 110+ gender-based violence (GBV) survivors across Wisconsin, USA.

My research combines interdisciplinary perspectives through collaborations with MadS&P, Preventing Interpersonal Violence and Overcoming Trauma (PIVOT) Lab, Native American Women Thriving through Innovative Violence Prevention and Empowerment (NATIVE) Lab and Sexual Violence Research Initative (SVRI). 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.

I am a proud recipient of the Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship recognizing my advocacy work with the Madison Tech Clinic! I am also a recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellows Program where I was advised by Kapil Vaswani at Confidential Computing and Technology for Empowerment group. I graduated from IIIT-Delhi with a Bachelors in Computer Science where I was advised by Prof. Vinayak Naik and Prof. Sachit Butail.

What have I been up to? 🔥

• July’25
  • Facilitated training sessions on tech-faciliated abuse in collaboration with:
    • July 2: Capacitity Building Consortium lead by National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) (Online)
    • July 11: ARC Community Services (Madison, WI)
    • July 29: NIWRC’s Women are Sacred Conference (Milwaukee, WI)
  • Paper accepted in CCS ‘25! 🎊
• June’25
  • Awarded prestigious Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship recognizing my advocacy work with Madison Tech Clinic! 🎊
• March’25
  • Participated in a panel on tech abuse at The Network’s “Reclaiming Our Love: Social Justice & Domestic Violence” Conference in Chicago.
  • Paper accepted in CSCW ‘25! 🎊
• Feb’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.

Publications

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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

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