Shantanu Sharma received his PhD in Computer Science in 2016 from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, in 2011. He was awarded a gold medal for the first position in his M.Tech. degree. Currently, he is pursuing his Post Doc at the University of California, Irvine, USA, assisted by Prof. Sharad Mehrotra. His research interests include designing models for MapReduce computations, data security, distributed algorithms, mobile computing, and wireless communication.