Rate My Professor Murtaza Haider

Murtaza Haider is a Professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University. He serves as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs and Research Director of the Urban Analytics Institute. He holds an adjunct professorship in Engineering at McGill University and directs Regionomics Inc., a consulting firm specializing in urban and regional economics. Haider earned a Master's degree in Transport Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on business analytics, data science, housing market dynamics, transport and infrastructure planning, urban planning, and human development in Canada and South Asia.

Haider has authored Real Estate Markets: An Introduction (2020) and Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics (2016). Key publications include "Beyond the Hype: Big Data Concepts, Methods, and Analytics" (Gandomi and Haider, 2015, International Journal of Information Management), "Commuting and Stress: Recent Evidence from Canada" (Haider et al., 2015, Journal of Transport and Health), and "An Analysis of Public Bus Transit Performance in Indian Cities" (Badami and Haider, 2007, Transportation Research Part A). He has taught at Toronto Metropolitan University since 2006 in courses such as Collaboration and Decision Technologies, Global Logistics, and Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and at McGill University from 2002 to 2006 in urban transportation and infrastructure. Awards include the Canadian Transportation Research Forum Best Doctoral Research Paper Award (2000), Best Master’s Research Paper Award (1999), Morrison Hershfield Teaching Excellence Award (2000), and multiple scholarships like Ontario Graduate Scholarships (1998-2001). As a syndicated columnist for Postmedia's Financial Post and other newspapers, and contributor to The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, he influences discourse on real estate and urban economics.