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Raluca Ada Popa's Homepage
I am an associate professor at UC Berkeley and the head of Security and Privacy Research at Google DeepMind.
I am interested in AI security, systems security, and applied cryptography.
At UC Berkeley, I co-founded and co-direct the
RISELab
and
SkyLab
, labs aiming to build secure intelligent systems for the cloud and for the sky of clouds, respectively,
and the
DARE
program for promoting diversity and equity.
As faculty, I was awarded the
ACM Grace Murray Hopper award
Sloan Research Fellowship
J. Lepreau Best Paper Award
Distinguished Paper Award
J. and D. Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
NSF CAREER
Bakar Faculty Fellowship
, and I was selected to the list of
35 innovators under 35
by MIT Technology Review.
Starting with 2023, I have been a co-creator and research advisor of the
Exocore Restaking Protocol
Starting with 2021, I have been a co-founder of
Opaque Systems
(and served as its President during 2021-2024).
Starting with 2015, I have been a co-founder of
PreVeil
(and served as its CTO during 2015-2021).
Before joining UC Berkeley, I did a one-year postdoc at ETH
Zürich in the System Security group led by
Srdjan Capkun
Before that, in 2014, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at
MIT
, my thesis being about building practical systems that compute on encrypted data. My PhD thesis was awarded a
George M. Sprowls Award
for best MIT CS doctoral theses.
My advisor was
Nickolai
Zeldovich
, and I was also fortunate to work closely with
Hari Balakrishnan
in systems, and with
Shafi Goldwasser
Yael Kalai
, and
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 also from MIT.
PhD advisees:
Mayank Rathee
Samyukta Yagati
, co-advised with Prof. Ion Stoica
Deevashwer Rathee
, co-advised with Prof. Dawn Song
Sijun Tan
Darya Kaviani
Jinhao Zhu
Alon Shakevsky
Corban Villa
Yu-Lin (Uriah) Tsai
Diogo Antunes
Postdoc:
Yiping Ma
Alumni:
PhD advisees:
Emma Dauterman
(→ faculty at Stanford University)
Vivian Fang
(→ OpenAI)
Jean-Luc Watson
(→ Research Scientist at NVIDIA)
Sam Kumar
(→ faculty at UCLA)
2024 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up
David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley
Wenting Zheng
(→ faculty at Carnegie Mellon University)
Rishabh Poddar
(→ CTO and co-founder of Opaque Systems, Inc.)
Pratyush Mishra
(→ faculty at University of Pennsylvania and co-founding scientist at Aleo, Inc.)
2022 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award Runner-Up
Weikeng Chen
(→ research partner at L2 Iterative)
Yuncong Hu
(→ faculty at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Ankur Dave
(→ software engineer at Databricks)
Michael Andersen
(→ CTO and co-founder of True)
Justine Sherry
[PhD mentee
whom I have worked closely with] (→ faculty at Carnegie Mellon University)
Postdocs:
Katerina Sotiraki
(→ faculty at Yale University)
Ioannis Demertzis
(→ faculty at UC Santa Cruz)
Sameer Wagh
(→ head of privacy at Devron.ai)
Chia-Che Tsai
(→ faculty at Texas A&M)
In addition, I have been working with a wonderful group of undergraduates and masters students.
Papers
Yicheng Liu, Alice Yeh, Harry Xu, Raluca Ada Popa, and Sam Kumar.
Merlin: Transparent and Efficient Virtual Memory for Encrypted Computation.
To appear in
OSDI 2026
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
Ryan Cottone, Darya Kaviani, Conor Power, Will Giorza, Evelyn Koo, Natacha Crooks, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Acumen: A Platform for Encrypted and Accountable Collaborative Editing.
To appear in
OSDI 2026
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
Deevashwer Rathee, Emma Dauterman, Allison Li, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Chorus: Secret Recovery with Ephemeral Client Committees.
To appear in
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2026
(IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).
Mayank Rathee, Keewoo Lee, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Verifiable PIR with Small Client Storage.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2026
(IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).
Xiaoyuan Zhu, Yaowen Ye, Tianyi Alex Qiu, Hanlin Zhu, Sijun Tan, Ajraf Mannan, Jonathan Michala, Raluca Ada Popa, and Willie Neiswanger.
Auditing Black-Box LLM APIs with a Rank-Based Uniformity Test.
ICLR 2026
(The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations).
Jinhao Zhu, Liana Patel, Matei Zaharia, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Compass: Encrypted Semantic Search with High Accuracy.
OSDI 2025
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
Darya Kaviani, Deevashwer Rathee, Bharghv Annem, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging.
To appear in
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2025
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Sijun Tan, Siyuan Zhuang, Kyle Montgomery, William Tang, Alejandro Cuadron, Chenguang Wang, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica.
JudgeBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Judges.
ICLR 2025
(The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations).
Vivian Fang, Emma Dauterman, Akshay Ravoor, Akshit Dewan, and Raluca Ada Popa.
LegoLog: A Configurable Transparency Log.
Euro IEEE S&P 2025
(IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy).
Deevashwer Rathee, Dacheng Li, Ion Stoica, Hao Zhang, and Raluca Ada Popa.
MPC-Minimized Secure LLM Inference.
ArXiv 2408.03561.
Darya Kaviani, Sijun Tan, Pravein Kannan, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Flock: A Framework for Deploying On-Demand Distributed Trust.
OSDI 2024
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
Graeme Connell, Vivian Fang, Rolfe Schmidt, Emma Dauterman, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Secret Key Recovery in a Global-Scale End-to-End Encryption System.
OSDI 2024
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
Sijun Tan, Xiuyu Li, Shishir G Patil, Ziyang Wu, Tianjun Zhang, Kurt Keutzer, Joseph E. Gonzalez, and Raluca Ada Popa.
LLoCO: Learning Long Contexts Offline.
EMNLP 2024
(Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing).
Mayank Rathee, Yuwen Zhang, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Private Analytics via Streaming, Sketching, and Silently
Verifiable Proofs.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2024
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Jean-Luc Watson, Tess Despres, Alvin Tan, Shishir G. Patil, Prabal Dutta, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Nebula: A Privacy-First Platform for Data Backhaul.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2024
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Raluca Ada Popa.
Confidential Computing or Cryptographic Computing?
ACM Queue 2024
CACM 2024
(Communications of the ACM).
Jean-Luc Watson, Saharsh Agrawal, Ryan Tsang, Sherry Luo, Raluca Ada Popa, and Prabal Dutta.
Retcon: Live Updates for Embedded Event-Driven Applications.
IPSN 2024
(ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks).
Sijun Tan, Weikeng Chen, Ryan Deng, and Raluca Ada Popa.
MPCAuth: Multi-factor Authentication for Distributed-trust Systems.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2023
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Mayank Rathee, Conghao Shen, Sameer Wagh, and Raluca Ada Popa.
ELSA: Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning with Malicious Actors.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2023
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Ian Chang, Katerina Sotiraki, Weikeng Chen, Murat Kantarcioglu and Raluca Ada Popa.
HOLMES: Efficient Distribution Testing for Secure Collaborative
Learning.
USENIX Security 2023
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Emma Dauterman, Vivian Fang, Natacha Crooks, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Reflections on trusting distributed trust.
HotNets 2022
(ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks).
Jean-Luc Watson, Sameer Wagh, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Piranha: A GPU Platform for Secure Computation.
USENIX Security 2022
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Vivian Fang,
Lloyd Brown,
William Lin,
Wenting Zheng,
Aurojit Panda, and
Raluca Ada Popa.
CostCO: An Automatic Cost Modeling Framework for Secure
Multi-Party Computation.
IEEE EuroS&P 2022
(IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy).
Distinguished Paper Award.
Emma Dauterman, Mayank Rathee, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica.
Waldo: A Private Time-Series Database from Function
Secret-Sharing.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2022
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Daniel Abadi, Anastasia Ailamaki, David Andersen, Peter Bailis, Magdalena Balazinska, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Boncz, Surajit Chaudhuri, Alvin Cheung, Anhai Doan, Luna Dong, Michael J. Franklin, Juliana Freire, Alon Halevy, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Stratos Idreos, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Volker Markl, Sergey Melnik, Tova Milo, C. Mohan, Thomas Neumann, Beng Chin Ooi, Fatma Ozcan, Jignesh Patel, Andrew Pavlo, Raluca Ada Popa, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Christopher Re, Michael Stonebraker, Dan Suciu.
The Seattle Report on Database Research.
CACM 2022
(Communications of the ACM).
Sarah Chasins, Alvin Cheung, Natacha Crooks, Ali Ghodsi, Ken Goldberg, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael I. Jordan, Anthony D. Joseph, Michael W. Mahoney, Aditya G. Parameswaran, David A. Patterson, Raluca Ada Popa, Koushik Sen, Scott Shenker, Dawn Song, and Ion Stoica.
The Sky Above The Clouds.
CoRR 2022 abs/2205.07147.
Sam Kumar, David Culler, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation.
OSDI 2021
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
J. Lepreau Best Paper Award.
Emma Dauterman, Vivian Fang, Ioannis Demertzis, Natacha Crooks, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Snoopy: Surpassing the Scalability Bottleneck of Oblivious Storage.
SOSP 2021
(ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles).
Yuncong Hu, Kian Hooshmand, Harika Kalidhindi, Seung Jin Yang, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Merkle
: A Low-Latency Transparency Log System.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2021
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Ryan Lehmkuhl, Pratyush Mishra, Akshayaram Srinivasan, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Muse: Secure Inference Resilient to Malicious Clients.
USENIX Security 2021
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Wenting Zheng, Ryan Deng, Weikeng Chen, Raluca Ada Popa, Aurojit Panda, and Ion Stoica.
Cerebro: A Platform for Multi-Party Cryptographic Collaborative Learning.
USENIX Security 2021
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Jeongseok Son, Griffin Prechter, Rishabh Poddar, Raluca Ada Popa, and Koushik Sen.
ObliCheck: Efficient Verification of Oblivious Algorithms with Unobservable State.
USENIX Security 2021
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Rishabh Poddar, Sukrit Kalra, Avishay Yanai, Ryan Deng, Raluca Ada Popa, and Joseph M. Hellerstein.
Senate: A Maliciously-Secure MPC Platform for Collaborative Analytics.
USENIX Security 2021
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Anurag Khandelwal, Joao Carreira, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph Gonzalez, Ion Stoica and David A. Patterson.
What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing.
CACM 2021
(Communications of the ACM).
Emma Dauterman, Eric Feng, Ellen Luo, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica.
DORY: An Encrypted Search System with Distributed Trust.
OSDI 2020
(USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation).
Pratyush Mishra, Ryan Lehmkuhl, Akshayaram Srinivasan, Wenting Zheng, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Delphi: A Cryptographic Inference Service for Neural Networks.
USENIX Security 2020
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Rishabh Poddar, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Srinath Setty,
Stavros Volos, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Visor: Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics as a Cloud Service.
USENIX Security 2020
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Chia-Che Tsai, Jeongseok Son, Bhushan Jain, John McAvey, Raluca Ada Popa, and Donald E. Porter.
Civet: An Efficient Java Partitioning Framework for Hardware
Enclaves.
USENIX Security 2020
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Dayeol Lee, Donha Jung, Chia-che Tsai, Ian Fang, and Raluca Ada Popa.
An Off-Chip Attack on Hardware Enclaves via the Memory Bus.
USENIX Security 2020
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Yuncong Hu, Sam Kumar, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Ghostor: Toward a Secure Data-Sharing System from Decentralized Trust.
NSDI 2020
(USENIX Symposium of Networked Systems Design and Implementation).
Ankur Dave, Chester Leung, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph E. Gonzalez, and Ion Stoica.
Oblivious Coopetitive Analytics Using Hardware Enclaves.
EuroSys 2020
(European Conference on Computer Systems).
Rishabh Poddar, Stephanie Wang, Jianan Lu, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Practical Volume-Based Attacks on Encrypted Databases.
EuroSP 2020
(IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy).
Weikeng Chen and Raluca Ada Popa.
Metal: A Metadata-Hiding File Sharing System.
NDSS 2020
(Network and Distributed System Security Symposium).
Andrew Law, Chester Leung, Rishabh Poddar, Raluca Ada Popa, Chenyu Shi, Octavian Sima, Chaofan Yu, Xingmeng Zhang, Wenting Zheng.
Secure Collaborative Training and Inference for XGBoost.
PPMLP 2020
(Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning in Practice Workshop).
Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Gabe Fierro, John Kolb, Hyung-Sin Kim, David E. Culler, and Raluca Ada Popa.
WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework with Transitive Delegation.
USENIX Security 2019
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Sam Kumar, Yuncong Hu, Michael P Andersen, Raluca Ada Popa, and David E. Culler.
JEDI: Many-to-Many End-to-End Encryption and Key Delegation for IoT.
USENIX Security 2019
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Rishabh Poddar, Tobias Boelter, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Arx: An Encrypted Database using Semantically Secure Encryption.
VLDB 2019
(International Conference on Very Large Data Bases).
Wenting Zheng, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph Gonzalez, and Ion Stoica.
Helen: Maliciously Secure Coopetitive Learning for Linear Models.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2019
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Extended paper,
arXiv:1907.07212
Eric Jonas, Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Chia-Che Tsai, Anurag Khandelwal, Qifan Pu, Vaishaal Shankar, Joao Menezes Carreira, Karl Krauth, Neeraja Yadwadkar, Joseph Gonzalez, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica and David A. Patterson.
Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing.
Technical Report 2019, UCB/EECS-2019-3, UC Berkeley.
Howard Wu, Wenting Zheng, Alessandro Chiesa, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica.
DIZK: Distributing Zero Knowledge Proof Systems.
Extended paper: Crypto ePrint Archive, 2018/691.
USENIX Security 2018
(USENIX Security Symposium).
Pratyush Mishra, Rishabh Poddar, Jerry Chen, Alessandro Chiesa, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Oblix: An Efficient Oblivious Search Index.
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2018
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Rishabh Poddar, Chang Lan, Raluca Ada Popa, and Sylvia Ratnasamy.
SafeBricks: Securing Network Functions in the Cloud.
NSDI 2018
(USENIX Symposium of Networked Systems Design and Implementation).
Daniel Ho, Xin Wang, Wenting Zheng, Joseph Gonzalez, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica.
High Accuracy Approximation of Secure Multiparty Neural Network Training.
AISys 2018.
Wenting Zheng, Frank Li, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica, and Rachit Agarwal.
MiniCrypt: Reconciling Encryption and Compression for Big Data Stores.
EuroSys 2017
(European Conference on Computer Systems).
Michael P Andersen, John Kolb, Kaifei Chen, Gabriel Fierro, David E. Culler and Raluca Ada Popa.
WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization System for IoT via Blockchain Smart Contracts.
Technical Report 2017, UCB/EEECS-2017-234, UC Berkeley.
Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, Raluca Ada Popa, David A. Patterson, Michael W. Mahoney, Randy H. Katz, Anthony D. Joseph, Michael Jordan, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Joseph Gonzalez, Ken Goldberg, Ali Ghodsi, David E. Culler and Pieter Abbeel.
A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI.
Technical Report 2017, UCB/EECS-2017-159, UC Berkeley.
Wenting Zheng, Ankur Dave, Jethro Beekman, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph Gonzalez,
and Ion Stoica.
Opaque: An Oblivious and Encrypted Distributed Analytics Platform.
NSDI 2017
(USENIX Symposium of Networked Systems Design and Implementation).
Nikolaos Karapanos, Alexandros Filios, Raluca Ada Popa, and Srdjan Capkun.
Verena: End-to-End Integrity Protection for Web Applications.
IEEE S&P 2016 (Oakland)
(IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy).
Chang Lan, Justine Sherry, Raluca Ada Popa, and Sylvia Ratnasamy.
Embark: Securely Outsourcing Middleboxes to the Cloud.
NSDI 2016
(USENIX Symposium on Networked Design and Implementation).
Rishabh Poddar, Tobias Boelter, and Raluca Ada Popa.
Arx: A Strongly Encrypted Database System.
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2016/591.
Tobias Boelter, Rishabh Poddar, and Raluca Ada Popa.
A Secure One-Roundtrip Index for Range Queries.
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2016/568.
Justine Sherry, Chang Lan, Raluca Ada Popa, and Sylvia Ratnasamy.
BlindBox: Deep Packet Inspection for Encrypted Traffic.
SIGCOMM 2015
(ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication).
Raphael Bost, Raluca Ada Popa, Stephen Tu, and Shafi Goldwasser.
Machine Learning Classification Over Encrypted Data.
NDSS 2015
(Network and Distributed System Security Symposium).
Raluca Ada Popa and Nickolai Zeldovich.
How to Compute With Data You Can't See.
IEEE Spectrum 2015
, 52(8):42-47.
Raluca Ada Popa, Nickolai Zeldovich and Hari Balakrishnan.
Guidelines for Using the CryptDB System Securely.
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2015/979.
Raluca Ada Popa, Emily Stark, Jonas Helfer, Steven Valdez, Nickolai Zeldovich, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan.
Building Web Applications on Top of Encrypted Data Using Mylar.
USENIX ;login:, 29(4):22-27
, August 2014.
Raluca Ada Popa, Emily Stark, Jonas Helfer, Steven Valdez, Nickolai
Zeldovich, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan.
Building Web Applications
on Top of Encrypted Data Using Mylar.
NSDI 2014
(USENIX Symposium of Networked Systems Design and Implementation).
Raluca Ada Popa, Frank H. Li, and Nickolai
Zeldovich.
An Ideal-Security Protocol for Order-Preserving Encoding.
BibTeX
extended paper
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2013
(IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).
(Alphabetical order:) Shafi
Goldwasser, Yael Kalai, Raluca Ada Popa, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, and Nickolai Zeldovich.
How to Run Turing
Machines on Encrypted Data.
BibTeX
CRYPTO 2013
(International
Cryptology Conference).
(Alphabetical order:) Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Kalai, Raluca Ada Popa, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Reusable Garbled Circuits and Succinct Functional Encryption.
BibTeX
Extended paper: Crypto ePrint Archive, 2012/733.
STOC 2013
(ACM Symposium on Theory of
Computing).
Selected for SIAM Journal of Computing Special Issue.
Raluca Ada Popa and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Multi-Key Searchable Encryption.
(This is the searchable encryption scheme used in Mylar.)
Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2013/508.
Raluca Ada Popa, Catherine M. S. Redfield, Nickolai
Zeldovich, and Hari Balakrishnan.
CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database.
CACM 2012
(Communications of the ACM), 55(9):103-111,
with accompanying
technical perspective
Meelap Shah, Emily Stark, Raluca Ada Popa, and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Language Support for Efficient Computation over Encrypted Data
Off the Beaten Track Workshop: Underrepresented Problems for Programming Language Researchers, 2012.
Raluca Ada Popa and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Cryptographic Treatment of CryptDB's Adjustable Join.
MIT-CSAIL-TR-2012-006, 2012.
Raluca Ada Popa, Catherine M. S. Redfield, Nickolai
Zeldovich, and Hari Balakrishnan.
CryptDB:
Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing.
BibTeX
SOSP 2011
(ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles).
Selected as a CACM Research Highlight of 2011.
Raluca Ada Popa, Andrew J. Blumberg, Hari Balakrishnan,
and Frank H. Li.
and Accountability for Location-Based Aggregate Statistics.
BibTeX
CCS 2011
(ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security).
Raluca Ada Popa, Jay Lorch, David Molnar, Helen J. Wang,
and Li Zhuang.
Enabling
Security in Cloud Storage SLAs with CloudProof.
BibTeX
USENIX 2011
(USENIX Annual Technical Conference).
Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones, Raluca Ada Popa, Nirmesh
Malviya, Eugene Wu, Sam Madden, Hari Balakrishnan, and Nickolai
Zeldovich.
Relational
Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud.
BibTeX
CIDR 2011
(Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research).
Raluca Ada Popa, Alessandro Chiesa, Tural Badirkhanli, and Muriel Médard.
Going Beyond Pollution Attacks: Forcing Byzantine Clients to Code Correctly.
(Work resulting from class project.) CoRR abs/1108.2080: 2011.
Raluca Ada Popa, Hari Balakrishnan, and Andrew J.
Blumberg.
Protecting
Privacy in Location-Based Vehicular Services.
BibTeX
USENIX
Security 2009
(USENIX Security Symposium).
James Cowling, Dan Ports, Barbara Liskov, Raluca Ada Popa,
and Abhijeet Gaikwad.
Census:
Location-Aware Membership Management for Large-Scale Distributed
Systems.
BibTeX
USENIX 2009
(USENIX Annual Technical Conference).
(Alphabetical order:)
Javed A. Aslam
, Raluca Ada Popa,
and Ronald L. Rivest.
On
Auditing Elections When Precincts Have
Different Sizes.
BibTeX
EVT 2008
(USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting
Technology Workshop).
(Alphabetical order:)
Javed A. Aslam
, Raluca Ada Popa,
and Ronald L. Rivest.
On Estimating the Size and Confidence
of a
Statistical Audit.
BibTeX
EVT 2007
(USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting
Technology Workshop).
Shan Lu
, Soyeon Park, Chongfeng Hu, Xiao Ma,
Weihang Jiang, Zhenmin Li, Raluca Ada Popa, and Yuanyuan Zhou.
MUVI:
Automatically Inferring Multi-Variable Access Correlations and
Detecting Related Semantic and Concurrency Bugs.
BibTeX
SOSP 2007
(ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles).
Theses
Raluca Ada Popa.
Building Practical Systems That Compute on Encrypted Data.
Ph.D. thesis, 2014.
Awarded the
2014 George Sprowls Ph.D. Thesis Award,
MIT EECS.
Raluca Ada Popa.
Provable and Practical Location Privacy for Vehicular and Mobile Systems.
Masters thesis, 2010.
Awarded the
2010 Johnson award for best MIT CS Masters of Engineering thesis.
Raluca Ada Popa.
VPriv: Protecting Privacy in Location-Based Vehicular Services.
Bachelors thesis, 2009.
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Winner
, nationwide.
CS161: Computer Security
, Spring 2026, undergraduate,
≈500 students
CS161: Computer Security
, Spring 2024, undergraduate,
≈600 students
CS 261:
Security in Computer Systems
, Fall 2023, graduate
CS161: Computer Security
, Spring 2023, undergraduate,
≈700 students
CS294-163: Secure Systems from Decentralized Trust
, Fall 2022, graduate
CS 161: Computer Security
, Fall 2021, undergraduate
CS 276: Cryptography and Applications
, Fall 2020, graduate
CS 161: Computer Security
, Spring 2020, undergraduate,
≈620 students
CS 294:
Decentralized Security: Theory and Systems
, Fall 2019, graduate,
NEW COURSE
CS 161: Computer Security
, Spring 2019, undergraduate,
≈600 students
CS 261:
Security in Computer Systems
, Fall 2018, graduate
CS 161:
Computer Security
, Spring 2018, undergraduate,
≈625 students
CS 261:
Security in Computer Systems
, Fall 2017, graduate
CS 161:
Computer Security
, Fall 2016, undergraduate,
≈380 students
CS 294: RISE Lab: Real-time, Intelligent, and Secure Systems
, Fall 2016, graduate,
NEW COURSE
CS 161:
Computer Security
, Spring 2016, undergraduate,
≈500 students
CS
261: Security in Computer Systems
, Fall 2015, graduate
As professor:
2022 Distinguished Paper Award, IEEE Euro S&P
2021 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
2021 Jim and Donna Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science
2021 J. Lepreau Best Paper Award, OSDI
2020 NSF CAREER
2019 Robert E. and Beverly A. Brooks Endowed Chair
2019 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
2019 Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35
2019 Bakar Fellow
2019 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
2018 Sloan Research Fellowship
2018 Hellman Faculty Award
2018 NSF Expedition Award
for RISELab, $10 million
2015 Intel Early Career Faculty Award
As graduate student:
2014 George Sprowls Ph.D. Thesis Award,
MIT EECS
2011-2013
Google Ph.D. Fellowship for Secure Cloud Computing
2013 Departmental teaching award, honorable mention, MIT EECS
2012 CACM research highlight for CryptDB
2010 Johnson award
for best CS Masters of
Engineering thesis, MIT
2010
Morris Joseph Levin Award
for best MasterWorks presentation, MIT EECS
2009 Jacobs Presidential Fellowship
for
graduate studies, MIT
As undergraduate student:
2009 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award
(one female and one male winner nationwide)
2009 Pogosyants Award
for
undergraduate research, MIT CSAIL
2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarship
2006 Caltech Upper Class Merit Award
, Carnation
Scholarship
2006 CRA - Women Distributed Mentor Project Award for
Summer Research
Selected service activities:
DARE
In early 2019, I launched
, a diversity program aiming to match strong undergraduates, many from underrepresented backgrounds, with EECS professors for research.
With help from EECS, we developed a web application system for DARE. I have been running the program even since its launch. Every year, the program enables undergraduates, many from underrepresented backgrounds, to engage in research with EECS faculty.
PC committees
OSDI 2025
SOSP 2023
SOSP 2021
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2020
SOSP 2019
NSDI 2019
OSDI 2018
NSDI 2018
NDSS 2017
Eurosys 2017
VLDB 2017
CCS 2016
Usenix Security 2016 (also served as the poster chair)
Eurosys 2016
IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2015