About Raluca Ada Popa
Born 1987. Raluca Ada Popa is a Romanian computer scientist and researcher.
Biography Raluca Ada Popa was born in Sibiu, a city in central Romania, in .
In 2011, Popa and her colleagues and advisor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed CryptDB, a new technology for homomorphic encryption in SQL databases. A 2024 paper described CryptDB as "the first encrypted database scheme supporting all standard SQL queries over the encrypted data without any client-side query processing."
Popa completed a postdoctoral fellowship at ETH Zurich, and joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering in 2015. She is the co-founder of cybersecurity startup companies PreVeil and Opaque Systems.
Personal life In a 2023 interview with Libertatea, Popa said that she has one child.
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Romanian computer scientist
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Raluca Ada Popa was born in 1987 in Sibiu.
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