Louiqa Raschid (born March 17, 1958 in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

) is a computer scientist in the USA who specializes in data base management and

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with applications in biology, medicine, financial and socio-economic data and disaster management. She is a professor in the Robert H. Smith School of Business and UMIACS at the

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Education and career

Raschid attended Bishop's College and St. Bridget's Convent in Sri Lanka, and won first place among all Sri Lankans in the 1973

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, before moving to India for her university education. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 from the

Indian Institute of Technology Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...

, and completed her Ph.D. in

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in 1987 at the

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. She joined the Robert H. Smith School of Business as an assistant professor in 1987, and was promoted to full professor there in 2002. She has also been affiliated with the computer science department at the University of Maryland since 1994. She served as

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of the ''ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality'' from 2013 to 2017.

Recognition

Raschid was named a

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in 2016 "for data management and integration in non-traditional domains including biomedicine, finance, and humanitarian applications". She was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raschid, Louiqa Living people American computer scientists Sri Lankan computer scientists Sri Lankan women scientists Sri Lankan women computer scientists IIT Madras alumni University of Florida alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 1958 births