PreVeil’s Chief Technology Officer and founder, Raluca Ada Popa, was awarded a 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science for her work at the University of California at Berkeley. Building practical systems that preserve confidential data as well as designing other novel encryption schemes, Popa stands as one of the 126 early-career scholars out of over 800 nominees receiving a Fellowship.
The Sloan Fellowships span eight scientific fields, awarded at an important milestone in a researcher’s career. “As a former #SloanFellow, I know firsthand how catalytic this award can be,” said Alfred P. Sloan Foundation President Adam Falk. “The Fellowship is an unmistakable marker of quality that makes a young researcher stand out. A Sloan Research Fellow is a scientist to watch.”
Popa holds a PhD in computer security and two BS degrees in computer science and mathematics from Massachusetts-based MIT. A co-founder of UC Berkeley’s RISELab, her current efforts focus on designing an analytics and learning framework capable of running on encrypted data, allowing organizations normally not allowed to share data to conduct studies with one another.
The recognition from the New York City based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is only the latest recognition Popa received, joining a Google PhD Fellowship, an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor award, a CRA Outstanding undergraduate award from the ACM, and others.
