Murtaza Haider

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Director, Urban Analytics Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University Professor Ted Rogers School of Management Ted Rogers School of Business Management Toronto, Ontario murtaza.haider@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 2480

Bio/Research

Murtaza Haider is a professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. He also serves as the research director of the Urban Analytics Institute. Professor Haider holds an adjunct professorship of Engineering at McGill University. In addition, he is a Director...

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Bio/Research

Murtaza Haider is a professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. He also serves as the research director of the Urban Analytics Institute. Professor Haider holds an adjunct professorship of Engineering at McGill University. In addition, he is a Director of Regionomics Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in the economics of cities and regions.

Professor Haider’s research interests include business analytics, data science, housing market dynamics, transport/infrastructure/urban planning, and human development in Canada and South Asia. He specializes in applying analytics and statistical models to find solutions for socio-economic challenges. He is the author of "Real Estate Markets: An Introduction" (2020) and "Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics" (2016).

Professor Haider is also a syndicated columnist with Post Media. His weekly column on real estate markets appears nationally in The Financial Post and local newspapers including Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Sun, and Montreal Gazette. He also writes occasionally for The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star.

Professor Haider holds a Masters in Transport Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto.


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