Raghava is Professor at Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi). Before joining IIIT-Delhi in 2017, he was working as Chief Scientist at Bioinformatics Centre, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India. He did M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), New Delhi in 1986 and Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (1996) from IMTECH, Chandigarh. Raghava is a strong supporter of open source software and open access, all resources developed at his group are free for scientific use. His group developed more than 250 web servers and 40 databases in the field of computer-aided drug/vaccine design. He has got number of awards including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science in 2008, National Bioscience Award in 2005, Sun Pharma Research Award in 2018.