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.

Ph.D. ; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; Computer Science ; 2016

M.Tech. ; National Institute of Technology ; Computer Engineering ; 2011

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

https://web.njit.edu/~ss797/

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 331 - DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT - HONORS

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

Databases
Secure data processing
Advanced topics in databases
Basics of cybersecurity and cryptography

Databases
Secure data processing
Trustworthy IoT data-driven systems
Cloud computing
ML in databases and secure model learning

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.

"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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"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.

"Supporting Complex Query Time Enrichment For Analytics"
Proceedings 26th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT , March, 2023.

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 .

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