Murtaza Haider

Professor at University of Alberta

Speaker

Murtaza Haider is a professor and the Radhe Krishna Gupta Executive Chair in Cities and Communities at the Alberta School of Business, and the Executive Director of the Cities Institute at the University of Alberta. He is also a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Professor Haider’s research focuses on business analytics, housing markets, transportation, infrastructure, and human development in Canada and South Asia. He authored Getting Started with Data Science (2015) and has developed popular online data science courses with IBM. A syndicated columnist with Postmedia, he writes weekly real estate columns that appear in The National Post and regional newspapers. He holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto.