Raluca Ada Popa

Raluca Ada Popa is an Associate Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley working in computer security, applied cryptography, and secure machine learning. She leads the AGI security team at Google DeepMind. She is a co-founder and co-director of the RISELab and SkyLab at UC Berkeley. Raluca has received her PhD in computer science as well as her Masters and two BS degrees from MIT. She is the recipient of the 2021 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship award, Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI 2021, Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Euro S&P 2022,  Jim and Donna Gray Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, NSF Career Award, Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, and a George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral thesis.