Raschid Named ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized a noted faculty researcher in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) for her significant contributions toward solving data management and data integration challenges in multiple nontraditional domains.

Louiqa Raschid, a professor of information systems in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, was today named an ACM Fellow. Raschid is one of 53 ACM members chosen this year to receive the computing society’s highest distinction.

“As nearly 100,000 computing professionals are members of our association, to be selected to join the top 1 percent [as a Fellow] is truly an honor,” says ACM President Vicki L. Hanson. “The inspiration, insight and dedication from these computing experts bring immeasurable benefits that can improve lives and help drive the global economy.”

ACM Fellows are chosen by their peers and hail from universities, corporations or research laboratories throughout the world. ACM has specifically recognized Raschid for her expertise in “… data management and integration in nontraditional domains including biomedicine, finance, and humanitarian applications.”

Raschid’s multidisciplinary research spans the fields of computer science, information systems and data science. She has expertise in graph data management and mining; cost-based optimization over Web-accessible mediated sources; and modeling, semantics and logic-based reasoning.

She is the editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality and is on the editorial board of ACM Computing Surveys.

“We are tremendously proud of Louiqa’s research and scholarship, particularly as she readily shares her expertise with new faculty and graduate students, creating a vital pipeline for new knowledge as we move forward,” says Mihai Pop, professor of computer science and interim director of UMIACS.

Raschid’s research has received multiple awards, including more than 25 grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

She has organized working groups on information mediation and biological data management for the National Institutes of Health and the NSF. Most recently, she led an effort supported by the NSF, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Financial Research to create financial “big data” and define a data science for finance research agenda.

Raschid received her doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Florida.

She will be formally honored on June 24, 2017 at ACM’s annual awards banquet in San Francisco.

Raschid is the 13th person affiliated with UMIACS to be named an ACM Fellow. Victor Basili, Rama Chellappa, Larry Davis, Joseph JaJa, Jack Minker, Dana Nau, Dianne O’Leary, Hanan Samet, Ben Shneiderman, Aravind Srinivasan and Uzi Vishkin have previously received this distinction, with Allison Druin also being named an ACM Fellow this year.