Naman Gupta
News
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 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). I aim to make technology safe, equitable, and supportive for everyone, especially historically marginalized communities who face intersecting axes of socio-political oppression and violence. Using interdisciplinary, intersectional, and community-engaged research methods, I examine both (a) how digital technologies enable gender-based and settler-colonial violence, and (b) how communities reclaim technologies for collective safety, healing, and liberation. I view academic research as a site of social transformation, one that re-imagines knowledge production through material community-led and justice-oriented interventions.
As a part of reciprocal research+advocacy practice, I direct the operations and outreach efforts at the Madison Tech Clinic (MTC), a free and confidential community-engaged organization that has provided trauma-informed support to 140+ gender-based violence (GBV) survivors across Wisconsin, USA. Recognizing my advocacy, I have received the Morgridge Fellowship for Community-Engaged Scholarship. 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. Prior to that, I graduated from IIIT-Delhi with a Bachelors in Computer Science where I was advised by Prof. Vinayak Naik and Prof. Sachit Butail.
Publications
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Accepted in Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025
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Accepted in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2025 (Top 5%, Honorable Mention for Best Paper) 🏆
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Workshop at CHI 2024. “What is Safety?”: Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Late Breaking Work) 2024
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Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) at Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) 2023
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USENIX Security 2021
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IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments (VHCIE) 2017
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International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) 2017
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 – 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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