Title
Assistant professor

Department
Division of Computer Science/EECS


Faculty URL
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~raluca/

Research Group
https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/

Email
raluca.popa@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
computer security, applied cryptography

Research Description
I am an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. I am interested in security, systems, and applied cryptography.?I co-founded the?RISELab, whose aim is to build systems that are secure and intelligent.?I am also a co-founder and the CTO of?PreVeil, a security startup based on my research.??Before joining UC Berkeley, I did a one-year postdoc at ETH Zürich in the System Security group led by Prof. Srdjan Capkun. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at?MIT, my thesis being about building practical systems that compute on encrypted data. My advisor was?Professor Nickolai Zeldovich, and I was also fortunate to work closely with:?Professor Hari Balakrishnan?(in systems),?Professor Shafi Goldwasser,?Professor Yael Kalai, and?Professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan?(in cryptography).?I earned my Masters of Engineering in Computer Science in 2010 and my two Bachelors in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2009 from MIT.??