Honors: (home)

I was an invited speaker at the 1999 Russian National Conference on Digital Libraries and the 2005 International Workshop on Genomic Databases in Brasil.

I was recognized by the Vice President of Research at the University of Maryland to be among the Top 100 Faculty in obtaining external research funding, in 1999.

My research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Service: (home)

I was special issue co-editor for The VLDB Journal Special Issue on Data Management, Analysis and Mining for the Life Sciences in 2005.

I was co-Program Chair for the Second International Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Sciences (DILS 2005). The proceedings are available through the Springer Verlag LNBI series

In 2006, I will be co-Program Chair for the 14th Cooperative Information Systems CoopIS2006 Conference.

I co-chaired a Working Group (with Peter Buneman and Jeff Ullman) in 1996 on mediator data models and query languages, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. I was an organizer of a Workshop on Data Management for Cellular and Molecular Biology sponsored by the NSF and the National Institutes of Health in 2003.

I am on the editorial board of ACM Computing Surveys and the INFORMS Journal of Computing. In the past, I have served on the board of the IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering.

I have served on the Program Committee of all the major database conferences (ACM Sigmod, VLDB and ICDE), the national conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI), the WWW Conference, IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries, and the International Conference on Information Systems.

I am a member of IEEE, ACM, and the Society of Women Engineers.

Current Projects: (home)

• Exploratory Research on the Annotated Biological Web (National Science Foundation EAGER Grant IIS 0960963).
• PattArAn National Science Foundation DBI 1147144 Methodology for Pattern Creation, Imprint Validation, and Discovery from the Annotated Biological Web.
• Query answering and ranking in the biological Web (National Science Foundation Grant IIS022847).
• Mediation Technology for Biological Pipeline Analysis (National Science Foundation Grant IIS0430915).
• Web Query Optimization
• Cost Models for Wide Area Applications
• Latency Profiles: Performance Monitors to construct Latency Profiles for wide area applications. This research is a part of the NSF ITR funded Nebula Project which constructs Resource Profiles to reflect network latencies, patterns of updates and change at content servers, and the varying requirements of different clients and applications.
• BioFast: Efficient and seamless access to Internet accessible life sciences data sources.
  BIP Toolkit Mediation technology for BIological Pipelines. Enhancing the semantics of links and paths in life sciences data sources.
• Challenges of Tsunami Disaster Data Management: Addresses the challenges of data management in a disaster recovery scenario, within the context of developing a National Data Center (NDC) for Sri Lanka.
• Quality of Data (QoD) Metadata for WebSources
• Web Semantics

Past projects

Teaching: (home)

Professor Raschid is a co-director of the CLIP Lab together with Professor Bonnie Dorr and Professor Amy Weinberg.

Collaborators: (home)

My collaborators include Terry Gaasterland, Avigdor Gal, Zoe Lacroix, George Mihaila, Felix Naumann, Maria Esther Vidal (mvidal at ldc dot usb dot ve) , and Vladimir Zadorozhny.