New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA.
Personal Details
I am an assistant professor in Department of Computer
Science
at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA. Also, I
have
a joint appointment with the Department of Data
Science at NJIT.
I am a member of Big Data Analytics Lab (BDaL)
and Cybersecurity Research Center.
Research interests:
Databases, security, privacy, and IoT.
[Updated on Feb 01, 2026]
Multiple fully-funded Ph.D. positions. Click here for details.
I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow
in Department of Computer Science
at the University of California, Irvine, USA, working in the
research group of
Prof. Sharad Mehrotra.
I have completed my Ph.D. in
Computer Science at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev,
Beersheva,
Israel.
I am blessed to become an academic son of Prof.
Shlomi Dolev
and to work with
Prof. Jeffrey Ullman --- Turing Award winner --- during my Ph.D. and Post-Doc.
Email:
shantanu.sharma[AT]njit[DOT]edu
MS Thesis or MS Project at NJIT: MS Students at NJIT, interested to work on MS thesis and/or MS
project,
can email me.
Awards
6. Best Paper Award to IoT Notary: Sensor Data Attestation in Smart Environment at 18th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEE NCA), 2019.
5. VLDB Travel Award, 2019.
4. Distinguished Poster Award to Scaling Cryptographic Techniques by Exploiting Data Sensitivity at a Public Cloud at the 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2019.
3. Negev PhD fellowship - "The Zin PhD Fellowship" from October 2012 to March 2016 (during entire PhD study), at Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
2. Research excellence awards in the year 2012, the year 2014, and the year 2015, at Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
1. Gold Medalist -- Master of Technology in Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India.