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. 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. 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
editor-in-chief of the
ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality from 2013 to 2017. ==Recognition==