Mohamad Soltani

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Accounting and Business Analytics at the Alberta School of Business. I also hold an Honorary Fellow appointment with the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

My research interests lie in the empirical analysis of service operations, with a focus on healthcare operations. In particular, I employ data-driven approaches to uncover latent interactions between healthcare policy makers, service providers, and patients in order to provide a system perspective of health care delivery that ultimately impacts efficiency of services and quality of care. My research has been published in prestigious academic journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), has been selected as the Winner of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award Competition in 2020, and has been a runner-up at the POMS College of Behavioral Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition in 2022. I have appeared in various media outlets including CBC, Global News, CTV, and Edmonton Journal.

I received my PhD in Operations Management from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. I also hold Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) and Isfahan University of Technology, both in Iran. 

Research Interests

• Healthcare operations management

• Service operations management

• Empirical studies in operations management

• Data analytics