Dr. 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.

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 data science courses with IBM.

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.