Raluca Ada Popa

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. == Selected publications ==