diff --git a/_includes/themes/lab/member.html b/_includes/themes/lab/member.html
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--- a/_includes/themes/lab/member.html
+++ b/_includes/themes/lab/member.html
@@ -120,7 +120,19 @@
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 		</div>		
 		<div class="bigspacer"></div>	
-		{% endif %}		
+		{% endif %}
+		
+		{% if member.researchgate %}
+		<div class="smallhead">
+			ResearchGate
+		</div>	
+		<div class="pad-left note">
+			<div class="smallspacer"></div>
+			<img src="/assets/images//researchgate.svg" width="20" style="position: relative; right: 1.8px; bottom: 2px;">
+			<a class="off" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/{{ member.researchgate }}">{{ member.researchgate }}</a>
+		</div>		
+		<div class="bigspacer"></div>	
+		{% endif %}	
 
 		{% if member.email %}
 		{% assign emailarray = member.email | split: '@' %}
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diff --git a/assets/pdfs/Bilal_CV.pdf b/assets/pdfs/Bilal_CV.pdf
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diff --git a/team/_posts/2024-09-03-Bilal-Shabbir.md b/team/_posts/2024-09-03-Bilal-Shabbir.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b46c6553
--- /dev/null
+++ b/team/_posts/2024-09-03-Bilal-Shabbir.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+layout: member
+title: "Bilal Shabbir"
+position: PhD Student
+nickname: Bilal
+handle: bilals08
+email: mshab008@fiu.edu
+twitter: iambilalshabbir
+github: bilals08
+scholar: cHz6VhgAAAAJ
+orcid: 0009-0000-4271-689X
+researchgate: Bilal-Shabbir-2
+osf: zd8ct
+figshare: Bilal_Shabbir/19535377
+cv: /assets/pdfs/Bilal_CV.pdf
+image: /assets/images/team/bilalshabbir.jpeg
+alum: false
+---
+
+Bilal Shabbir is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Knight Foundation School of Computing & Information Sciences (KFSCIS) at Florida International University, where he is conducting research under the supervision of Prof. Fahad Saeed, with a focus on proteomics, parallel computing, and machine learning. His work primarily involves developing machine learning and deep learning models for protein identification.
