She is a professor in the Robert H. Smith School of Business and UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[1] Raschid attended Bishop's College and St. Bridget's Convent in Sri Lanka, and won first place among all Sri Lankans in the 1973 General Certificate of Education, before moving to India for her university education.
[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in 1980 from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1987 at the University of Florida.
[3] She served as editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality from 2013 to 2017.
[2][4] Raschid was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016 "for data management and integration in non-traditional domains including biomedicine, finance, and humanitarian applications".