Haque, Dr. Waqar

Waqar Haque
Email: Phone:
250-960-6522
Office:
10-2052
Campus:
  • Prince George

Biography

Dr. Haque received his Masters and PhD in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA. He joined UNBC in 1995 and is presently Full Professor, cross-appointed in the Department of Computer Science and the School of Business. His teaching commitments also extend into the MBA Program. His academic background 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.

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.

Research and Expertise

Research Fields:
  • Business
  • Computer Science
Areas of Expertise:

Advanced analytics, Business Intelligence, High Performance Computing, Data Science, Management Information Systems

Not accepting graduate students
Supervises in:
  • Computer Science
  • Business Administration
  • Health Sciences