 From 2003 to 2009, Raghavan was the editor-in-chief of Journal of the ACM.In 1986, Raghavan received the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper.In 2000, he was named a fellow of the IEEE; received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems; and received the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9).