Mohamad Soltani

Mohamad Soltani is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the University of Alberta's Alberta School of Business, Department of Accounting and Business Analytics. He holds an Honorary Fellow appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Emergency Medicine. His research focuses on data-driven analysis of healthcare and service operations, emphasizing interactions between policymakers, providers, and patients to enhance care quality and system efficiency. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Predictive Business Analytics and Operations Management.

Education: PhD in Operations Management (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020), MS and BS in Industrial Engineering (Amirkabir University of Technology and Isfahan University of Technology, Iran).

Research Interests: Healthcare operations, service operations optimization, empirical operations analysis, and data analytics applications. His work has been featured in Management Science, M&SOM, and media outlets like CBC and Global News.

Research Contributions: Award-winning studies on healthcare policy spillovers, ED physician workload impacts, and appointment scheduling algorithms. His work bridges empirical analysis with practical healthcare delivery challenges.

Teaching: OM 502 (Operations Management) and OM 620 (Predictive Business Analytics) in Winter Term 2026, emphasizing analytical tools for business decision-making.