Shantanu Sharma

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
About Me
Shantanu Sharma is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology since 2021, following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. During his PostDoc, he worked with Professor Sharad Mehrotra. He works primarily at the intersection of database management systems and security/privacy. His research interest also includes IoT, blockchains, and ML in databases. One of his papers on secure and privacy-preserving sensor data attestation received the Best Paper award at the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications. His work on secure database management systems has been published in tier-one databases conferences, such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, and IEEE ICDE, and in several IEEE and ACM Transactions. He received his Ph.D. degree from Ben-Gurion University in Israel, where he worked with Professor Shlomi Dolev. One of his collaborators is Professor Jeffrey Ullman of Stanford University, the 2021 Turing Award winner.
Education
Ph.D.; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Computer Science; 2016
M.Tech.; National Institute of Technology; Computer Engineering; 2011
Awards & Honors
2019 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2019
2019 VLDB Travel Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2019
2019 Distinguished Poster Award, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2019
2016 Negev Zin Fellowship , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2015 Research Excellence Award, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2011 Gold Medal, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India
Website
https://web.njit.edu/~ss797/
2026 Fall Courses
CS 331 - DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
DS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
DS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
DS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
DS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN DS
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
DS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
DS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
DS 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
DS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
Teaching Interests
Databases
Secure data processing
Advanced topics in databases
Basics of cybersecurity and cryptography
Past Courses
CS 331: DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT
CS 331: DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT - HONORS
CS 351: INTRODUCTION TO CYBERSECURITY
CS 631: DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 785: SEMINAR IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE I
CS 785: ST: DATABASE SECURITY
Research Interests
Databases
Secure data processing
Trustworthy IoT data-driven systems
Cloud computing
ML in databases and secure model learning
Conference Paper
"BIM/GIS-based Graph Framework for Emergency Response: A Case Simulation for Fire Protection (13987)"
FIG Congress 2026 The Future We Want - The SDGs and Beyond , May, 2026.
"SPARK: Smart Building Fire Prediction and Risk Analysis"
2025 23rd International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), November, 2025.
"Veil: A Storage and Communication Efficient Volume-Hiding Algorithm"
June, 2024.
" Secure Normal Form: Mediation Among Cross Cryptographic Leakages in Encrypted Databases"
April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2024.
"Information-Theoretically Secure and Highly Efficient Search and Row Retrieval."
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 16, August, 2023.
"WedgeBlock: An Off-Chain Secure Logging Platform for Blockchain Applications"
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT, March, 2023.
Chapter
Shlomi Dolev, Komal Kumari, Sharad Mehrotra, Baruch M. Schieber, Shantanu Sharma. "Brief Announcement: Make Master Private-Keys Secure by Keeping It Public." "Lecture Notes in Computer Science," pp. 338-343. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.
Shlomi Dolev, Komal Kumari, Sharad Mehrotra, Baruch M. Schieber, Shantanu Sharma. "Reminisce for Securing Private-Keys in Public." "Lecture Notes in Computer Science," pp. 338-343. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.
Conference Proceeding
"Access Control for Information-Theoretically Secure Data"
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, September, 2025.
"Practices for Using Data-Centric Machine Learning with Imbalanced Classes: A Case of SPE Occurrence Prediction"
December, 2022.
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Journal Article
Ahmed Roushdy Elkordy, Yahya H. Ezzeldin, Shanshan Han, Shantanu Sharma, Chaoyang He, Sharad Mehrotra, Salman Avestimehr. 2023. "Federated Analytics: A survey." APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
Shantanu Sharma, Sharad Mehrotra, Nisha Panwar, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Peeyush Gupta, Shanshan Han, Guoxi Wang. 2022. "Quest: Privacy-Preserving Monitoring of Network Data: A System for Organizational Response to Pandemics.." IEEE Transactions on Service Computing.
Professional
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
Committee Member, 2023
International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
Track Organizer, 2023
Private, Secure, and Trustworthy IoT Data Management Workshop (ASTRIDE)
Organizer, Academic Conference/Workshop or Conference Program, 2023
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) – PhD Symposium
Committee Chair, 2023
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
Committee Member, 2023
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS)
Committee Member, 2022