Raluca Ada Popa

Biography

Raluca Ada Popa is an assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Her research is in security and applied cryptography. Raluca has developed practical systems that protect data confidentially by computing over encrypted data, and has designed novel encryption schemes as well. She is co-founder and chief technology officer at PreVeil. Raluca earned her PhD in Computer Security, and two BS degrees, in Computer Science and Mathematics, from MIT. She is the recipient of several honors, including MIT 35 under 35; the Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Award; the George M. Sprowls Award for the best MIT Computer Science doctoral dissertation; a Google PhD Fellowship; and a Johnson award for the best MIT Computer Science Masters of Engineering thesis.

EDUCAUSE Publications

  • Higher Education Research, Cybersecurity, and CMMC Compliance
    • Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports
    • Author

    This brief, a joint effort on the part of EDUCAUSE and PreVeil, was written to clarify the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework and to guide your institution on its journey to CMMC compliance.

EDUCAUSE Presentations