Raluca Ada Popa is a security and applied cryptography researcher who leads Security and Privacy Research at Google DeepMind and serves as an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Raluca Ada Popa's Twitter Score is 29 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #37,605 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Raluca Ada Popa co-founded Opaque Systems, PreVeil, RISELab, and SkyLab, and serves as a research advisor to the Exocore Restaking Protocol. Her research spans AI security, systems security, secure multi-party computation, encrypted search, metadata-private messaging, and private analytics. She co-authored "Reflections on trusting distributed trust," a 2022 paper examining secure multi-party computation applications and the role of blockchains as distributed-trust systems.
Raluca Ada Popa received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for her contributions to practical distributed systems for secure computation over encrypted data, one of computing's most recognized honors for researchers early in their careers. Her work on confidential computing and collaborative learning over encrypted data has informed both academic research and applied cryptography in production systems.
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