Research

2026

Trauma-Informed Digital Evidence Collection: A Design Inquiry into Evidence Practices for Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, Rahul Chatterjee ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026. [PDF]

Abusability of Automation Apps in Intimate Partner Violence
Shirley Zhang, Paul Chung, Nishant Korapati, Jacob Vervelde, Rahul Chatterjee, Kassem Fawaz
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec.), 2025. [PDF]
Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin: Surfacing Barriers Within and Beyond the Courtroom
Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, Rahul Chatterjee
ACM CSCW, 2025. [PDF]
Hidden in Plain Bytes: Exploring Data Exports for Investigating Interpersonal Account Compromise
Julia Nonenkamp, Naman Gupta, Abhimanyu Dev Gupta, Rahul Chatterjee
ACM CCS, 2025. [PDF]
Can Social Media Privacy and Safety Features Protect Targets of Interpersonal Attacks? A Systematic Analysis
Majed Almansoori, Rahul Chatterjee
25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS), 2025. [PDF]
A Framework for Abusability Analysis: The Case of Passkeys in Interpersonal Threat Models
Alaa Daffalla, Arkaprabha Bhattacharya, Jacob Wilder, Rahul Chatterjee, Nicola Dell, Rosanna Bellini, Thomas Ristenpart
USENIX Security Symposium, 2025. [PDF]
Digital Technologies and Human Trafficking: Combating Coercive Control and Navigating Digital Autonomy
Sophie Stephenson, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, Nicola Dell
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025. [PDF]

“I really just leaned on my community for support”: Barriers, Challenges, and Coping Mechanisms Used by Survivors of Technology-Facilitated Abuse to Seek Social Support, Naman Gupta, Kate Walsh, Sanchari Das, Rahul Chatterjee. USENIX Security 2024. [PDF]
A Critical Analysis of the Prevalence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in US College Students, Naman Gupta, Sanchari Das, Kate Walsh, Rahul Chatterjee. CHI Extended Abstract (LBW) 2024. [PDF]
The Web of Abuse: A Comprehensive Analysis of Online Resource in the Context of Technology-Enabled Intimate Partner Surveillance, Majed Almansoori, Mazharul Islam, Saptarshi Ghosh, Mainack Mondal, Rahul Chatterjee. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2024. [PDF]

Analyzing Patterns and Behavior of Users When Detecting and Preventing Tech-enabled Stalking, Rose Ceccio*, Naman Gupta*, Majed Almansoori*, Rahul Chatterjee. Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2023. [PDF]
“It’s the Equivalent of Feeling Like You’re in Jail”: Lessons from Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of IoT-Enabled Intimate Partner Abuse", Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Rahul Chatterjee, USENIX Security 2023. [PDF]
Abuse Vectors: A Framework for Conceptualizing IoT-Enabled Interpersonal Abuse, Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Danny Yuxing Huang, Rahul Chatterjee, USENIX Security 2023. [PDF]
Sneaky Spy Devices and Defective Detectors: The Ecosystem of Intimate Partner Surveillance with Covert Devices, Rose Ceccio, Sophie Stephenson, Varun Chadha, Danny Yuxing Huang, Rahul Chatterjee, USENIX Security, 2023. [PDF]

A Global Survey of Android Dual-Use Applications Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance Majed Almansoori, Andrea Gallardo, Julio Poveda, Adil Ahmed, and Rahul Chatterjee Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) 2022 [PDF]

Clinical computer security for victims of intimate partner violence Sam Havron, Diana Freed, Rahul Chatterjee, Damon McCoy, Nicola Dell, and Thomas Ristenpart, USENIX Security 2019 [PDF]
“Is my phone hacked?” Analyzing Clinical Computer Security Interventions with Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Diana Freed, Sam Havron, Emily Tseng, Andrea Gallardo, Rahul Chatterjee, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) 2019 [PDF]

The spyware used in intimate partner violence Rahul Chatterjee, Periwinkle Doerfler, Hadas Orgad, Sam Havron, Jackeline Palmer, Diana Freed, Karen Levy, Nicola Dell, Damon McCoy, and Thomas Ristenpart IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2018 [PDF]