Shantanu Rane manages the Cyber-Physical Systems research area at PARC. His research background is in applied cryptography, statistics and signal processing. He works on fundamental and applied problems in security, privacy, machine learning and control systems.

Shantanu earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California in 2007, a Masters in electrical engineering from The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2001 and a Bachelors degree in instrumentation engineering from Pune University, India in 1999. He has previously worked at the National Center for Radio Astrophysics (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune) and at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2012-2015, 2018-2021), the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2012-2014). He has participated in standardization activity for ITU-T/MPEG H.264/AVC video compression standard, and the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 Subcommittee on Biometrics.