Prior to that, Rashid was a lecturer of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto (UofT). Rashid received his Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences , and then continued on as a post-doctoral fellow at the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, both at UofT. For three years, Rashid served as an R&D scientist at a manufacturer of optical spectroscopy instruments that serve a wide range of industries. Reem Aweida-Parsons