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 work on 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 violence 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 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”.

Download my CV.

News:

• Apr ‘24: Presenting poster at CHI ‘24. See you there!
• Apr ‘24: Presented poster at UW-Madison’s Day at WI State Capitol!
• Apr ‘24: Presented work to WI DOJ MMIW Taskforce.
• Feb ‘24: Paper accepted at CHI ‘24 (Late Breaking Work)
• Apr ‘23: Runners-up talk at UW-Madison CS Research Symposium ‘23.
• Mar ‘23: Awarded Travel Grant to attend NDSS ‘23. Organized Queer in Security and Privacy discussion with Hieu.
• Dec ‘22: Paper accepted in USEC ‘23!
• Aug ‘21: Started PhD in Computer Science at UW-Madison.
• Jan ‘21: Paper accepted at USENIX ‘21!
• Jan ‘20: Started Research Fellowship at MSR.
• May'17: Graduated from IIIT-Delhi.
• Jan'17: Paper accepted in IEEE VR'17.
• Jan'17: Poster accepted in COMSNETS'17.

Service:

• External Reviewer – CHI LBW ‘24, CSCW ‘24.
• Poster Committee – IEEE S&P ‘24 (Oakland), SOUPS ‘24.
• Organizer – Queer in Security & Privacy discussion at NDSS ‘23.

Teaching:

• Aug ‘23 and Jan ‘24: Teaching Assistant for CS639: Capstone Projects (UW-Madison).
• Jun ‘23: Teaching Assistant for CS540: Artificial Intelligence (UW-Madison).
• Jan'16: Teaching Assistant for CS546:Mobile Computing (IIIT-Delhi & NPTEL).
• Jan'16: Instructor for Data Structures & Algorithms and Systems Programming (IIIT-Delhi).

Mentoring:

UW-Madison

• Community Organizer for UW Madison Grad Student Discord and CS Department Slack. Join us!
• Kexin Zhang (CS, PhD, UW-Madison ‘23)
• Pooja Yadav (CS, MS, UW-Madison ‘23)
• Daniel Mu (CS, MS/PhD, UW-Madison ‘23)
• Mohammad Musa (CS, PhD, UW-Madison ‘23)
• Deep Patel (CS, PhD, UW-Madison ‘23)

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