University of Alberta's Cities Institute
Presentation: University of Alberta Cities Institute and Perspectives on Edmonton's Downtown Challenges
Murtaza Haider is a Professor and the Radhe Krishna Gupta Executive Chair in Cities and Communities at the Alberta School of Business, as well as the Executive Director of the Cities Institute at the University of Alberta. Previously, he served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and a full Professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He has also been the Research Director of the Urban Analytics Institute. His roles at TMU have included Associate Dean of Research, Director of Internationalization, Director of the School of Health Services Management, and Acting Chair of the Real Estate Management program. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor at McGill University, where he established the Urban Systems Lab.
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 courses in data science with IBM, including "Intro to Data Science," which has reached over a million learners globally.
A syndicated columnist with Postmedia, his weekly columns on real estate appear in The National Post and regional newspapers. He holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto.
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