At 32, assistant electrical engineering and computer science professor Raluca Ada Popa has been named to MIT Technology Review's list of 35 Innovators Under 35, in the Visionaries category. The honor recognizes her innovative solution to one of the key challenges of cybersecurity -- how to make computer systems safe without depending entirely on firewalls. According to the write-up: "Today, her encryption systems work with a range of applications and provide a level of protection that firewalls cannot: even if attackers break in, they have no way to decipher the data. ... Popa says her techniques allow systems to operate as if they've been blindfolded. They're able to compute on data without actually seeing it -- which is opening the cybersecurity field to a host of new applications. A more recent innovation of hers, Helen, can be used by hospitals to share and aggregate patient records without compromising confidentiality. Another of her systems, Opaque, secures hardware systems against potentially compromised software and is now used by such companies as IBM." Professor Popa was also recently named a Bakar Fellow; for more on that, see our story at Berkeley News.