Shantanu Sharma
Shantanu Sharma
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
4201B Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
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
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
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
2024 Fall Courses
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
DS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 331 - DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT - HONORS
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
DS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 631 - DATA MGT SYSTEMS DESIGN
DS 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
DS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
DS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 331 - DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT - HONORS
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
DS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 631 - DATA MGT SYSTEMS DESIGN
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
Secure data processing
Advanced topics in databases
Basics of cybersecurity and cryptography
Past Courses
CS 331: DATABASE SYSTEM DESIGN & MGMT
CS 351: INTRODUCTION TO CYBERSECURITY
CS 631: DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 785: SEMINAR IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE I
CS 351: INTRODUCTION TO CYBERSECURITY
CS 631: DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 785: SEMINAR IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE I
Research Interests
Databases
Secure data processing
Trustworthy IoT data-driven systems
Cloud computing
ML in databases and secure model learning
Secure data processing
Trustworthy IoT data-driven systems
Cloud computing
ML in databases and secure model learning
Chapter
Dolev, Shlomi, & Kumari, Komal, & Mehrotra, Sharad, & Schieber, Baruch M., & Sharma, Shantanu (2025). Brief Announcement: Make Master Private-Keys Secure by Keeping It Public, Springer Nature Switzerland. (pp. 338-343). Springer Nature Switzerland
Conference Paper
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
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
Journal Article
Elkordy, Ahmed Roushdy , & Ezzeldin, Yahya H. , & Han, Shanshan, & Sharma, Shantanu, & He, Chaoyang , & Mehrotra, Sharad , & Avestimehr, Salman (2023). Federated Analytics: A survey. APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing,
Sharma, Shantanu, & Mehrotra, Sharad, & Panwar, Nisha, & Venkatasubramanian, Nalini , & Gupta, Peeyush, & Han, Shanshan, & Wang, Guoxi (2022). Quest: Privacy-Preserving Monitoring of Network Data: A System for Organizational Response to Pandemics.. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing,
Sharma, Shantanu, & Mehrotra, Sharad, & Panwar, Nisha, & Venkatasubramanian, Nalini , & Gupta, Peeyush, & Han, Shanshan, & Wang, Guoxi (2022). Quest: Privacy-Preserving Monitoring of Network Data: A System for Organizational Response to Pandemics.. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing,
Conference Proceeding
Practices for Using Data-Centric Machine Learning with Imbalanced Classes: A Case of SPE Occurrence Prediction
December 2022
Please see all publications at: https://web.njit.edu/~ss797/publications.html
December 2022
Please see all publications at: https://web.njit.edu/~ss797/publications.html
Professional
International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
Track Organizer, 2023
International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Committee Member, 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 Data Engineering (ICDE)
Committee Member, 2023
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
Committee Member, 2023
49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)
Committee Member, 2022
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS)
Committee Member, 2022
48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Committee Member, 2022
Track Organizer, 2023
International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Committee Member, 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 Data Engineering (ICDE)
Committee Member, 2023
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
Committee Member, 2023
49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)
Committee Member, 2022
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS)
Committee Member, 2022
48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Committee Member, 2022