Notice Board

Dr. Waqar Haque, UNBC
Professor of Computer Science

Friday - June 10, 2022
12 - 1 p.m.
C640 (social distancing considered)

Engaging Industry - Collaborative Research Partnerships
This talk will provide an overview of various internal and external projects successfully completed with student and stakeholder engagement. The focus will be on two areas: business intelligence (BI) and business process management (BPM). Data analytics is a growing field because organizations have amassed large volumes of data which largely remain untapped. The value in this data is immense but insights can only be gained using advanced BI techniques including multi-dimensional OLAP cubes. Visualization of this data is necessary to stir stakeholder interest. Besides descriptive analytics, predictive and prescriptive modeling further enhances the value by forecasting likely outcomes and taking corrective actions to influence the future. BPM is another area which has been gaining rapid attention in recent years due to the ever-increasing complexity of interacting processes which exist in all organizations. The BPM lifecycle allows removal of redundancies and overlaps as processes are optimized for maximum efficiency. Organizations are moving towards adopting BPM at a pace never seen before.

Brief bio:

Dr. Haque received his Masters and PhD in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA in 1993. He is presently Full Professor at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), cross-appointed in the Department of Computer Science and the School of Business, including teaching commitments in the MBA Program. His academic background also includes a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from University of Alberta. Dr Haque's research interests include Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, e-commerce, parallel and distributed computing, high performance computing, visual analytics, and real-time database systems. Dr Haque has been actively involved in industrial collaborative research that has led to commercialization of software. His work was nominated, and won, the Industrial Collaborative Research Award. In addition to multiple research grants, Dr Haque has been a recipient of NSERC for almost two decades and currently holds a SSHRC grant as well. Dr Haque leads the Business Intelligence Research Group (BIRG) at UNBC and also serves on the Research Computing Management Board and Health Research Institute (HRI) Leadership Council. 

This talk could also be of interest to other disciplines, particularly School of Business, Faculty of Health Sciences, and Chairs.