Faculty Profile
Ph.D. University of Florida
Louiqa Raschid
received a Bachelor of Technology in
electrical engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras, in 1980, and a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from the
University of Florida, Gainesville,
in 1987. She is a Professor in the
Smith School of Business and holds a
joint appointment with the Institute
for Advanced Computer Studies and
the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Maryland in
College Park.
Louiqa Raschid has made significant contributions towards solving the
challenges of data management, data integration, and performance for
applications in the life sciences, Web data delivery, health information,
financial information systems, humanitarian IT applications and Grid
computing. Her research spans the fields of computer science to
business information systems to life science data management and she is an
expert in optimization and large scale simulation, modeling and semantics
and logic based reasoning, and data management and analysis techniques.
She has published approximately 140 papers in the leading conferences
and journals in databases, scientific computing, Web data management,
bioinformatics and AI including the ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, AAAI, IEEE ICDE, ACM
TODS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE ToC, and the Journal of Logic Programming.
Her research has received multiple awards including over
25 grants from the NSF and DARPA.
She has organized working groups on information mediation and biological
data management for the NIH and DARPA.She is leading an effort sponsored by
the NSF and the Computing Research Association on next generation financial cyberinfrastructure.
She has advised and mentored over 30 Ph.D. or post-doctoral researchers
including many women and minority students has over 100 co-authors or
co-editors. She has played a key role in the Sahana FOSS project for
disaster information management including serving as database architect,
member of the Sahana Software Foundation, and Founding Chair of the Sahana
Board (2007-2009).
Sahana is the only comprehensive product for disaster information
management. Sahana is an outgrowth of the 2003 tsunami.
She has been a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM since 2008.
