Dr Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He completed his PhD studies in Crop Genetics and Breeding at the China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, and has been awarded a Gold Medal for his contribution to Genetics, accredited as a Talented Young Scientist by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Pakistan. He recently worked on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and is serving as Deputy Director of Student Affairs. He has published about 50 papers in various journals and serves as an Editor of multiple journals. His teaching disciplines include genetics, breeding, stresses, gene mapping by linkage and association mapping, etc.