Computer security professor at UC Berkeley, President and co-founder of Opaque Systems, co-founder of Preveil
Raluca is an associate professor at UC Berkeley. She is interested in security, systems, and applied cryptography.
She 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, she was awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award 2021, a 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 she was selected to the list of 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review.Starting with 2021, she has been a co-founder and the President of Opaque Systems. 
Starting with 2015, she has been a co-founder (and served as CTO) of PreVeil.
Before joining UC Berkeley, she did a one-year postdoc at ETH Zürich in the System Security group led by Srdjan Capkun. Before that, in 2014, she completed her Ph.D. in computer science at MIT, the thesis being about building practical systems that compute on encrypted data. Her 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.
Starting with 2015, she has been a co-founder (and served as CTO) of PreVeil.
Before joining UC Berkeley, she did a one-year postdoc at ETH Zürich in the System Security group led by Srdjan Capkun. Before that, in 2014, she completed her Ph.D. in computer science at MIT, the thesis being about building practical systems that compute on encrypted data. Her 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.Raluca has a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science in 2010 and two Bachelors in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2009 also from MIT.