Abdul Rehman Gilal received the Ph.D. degree in information technology from Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. He is currently a Faculty Member with Florida International University, USA. He has been mainly researching the field of software project management to find effective methods of composing software development teams. Based on his research publication track record has contributed to the areas of human factors in software development, complex networks, databases and data mining, and programming and cloud computing.