Prof. Raluca Ada Popa, an associate professor at UC Berkeley, specializes in privacy technologies and secure AI. She co-directs RISELab and SkyLab and co-founded Opaque Systems and PreVeil. With a Ph.D. and other degrees from MIT, she's honored with the 2021 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, among other accolades, highlighting her contributions to computer science and teaching.