Dr. Hai Wang
Department of Finance, Information Systems and Management Science
Sobey School of Business
Saint Mary's University
923 Robie Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3

Phone: (902)496-8231
E-mail: hai.wang@smu.ca

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Dr. Hai Wang is a Professor in the Department of Finance, Information Systems and Management Science at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University. He previously served in the same department as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and later as a tenured Associate Professor from 2004 to 2016. He also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University.

Dr. Wang was born in China. He attended Tsinghua University High School and Peking University before immigrating to Canada. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick in 1995, followed by his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1997 and 2004, respectively. His research has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Dr. Wang is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. He has published more than 120 scholarly publications, including leading venues such as The VLDB Journal, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), and International Journal of Forecasting. His co-authored paper "Teaching Design Thinking through Case Analysis: Joint Analytical Process" received the 2011 Best Teaching Brief Award (US$500) from the Decision Sciences Institute and Alpha Iota Delta. His co-authored paper "A Teaching Module of No-Code Business App Development" was recognized with the JISE 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award from the Journal of Information Systems Education and ISCAP‑EDSIG (Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals – Education Special Interest Group).

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