Shantanu Rane conducts research on fundamental and applied problems in security, privacy, machine learning, signal processing, and control systems.

Shantanu earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California in 2007, a Masters degree 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); Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California; and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

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.