Faculty Profile

KHALED HASSANEIN

Information Systems

Area Chair/Professor/Director of MeRC

Area of Expertise
Khaled Hassanein specializes in the areas of technology adoption as related to e-Commerce, m-Commerce and e-Health, human-computer interaction, and human-centric decision support systems. Since joining McMaster, Dr. Hassanein's teaching efforts have focused on offering MBA courses on Management Information Systems, eBusiness Strategies and Decision Support Systems.

Professional Activities

Dr. Hassanein has a successful track record of securing research funding from federal, provincial and private sector organizations. This funding has been used to mount a successful research program in the above areas involving collaboration with other researchers as well as graduate students. His research activities have resulted in over 70 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, conference proceedings and book chapters to date. Dr. Hassanein is a senior editor, associate editor or editorial board member with several academic journals in the information systems field. He has served on the executive committees of several international conferences and was the chair for the information systems division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) during 2006/2007. Prior to joining McMaster, Dr. Hassanein was a Senior Research Associate with NCR's Payments Solutions division in Waterloo, Ontario. There he led several advanced development projects related to the automated processing of financial documents, and the data warehousing and mining of financial transaction data. He is a joint holder of several U.S. patents, a senior member of the IEEE and a designated Professional Engineer in Ontario.

Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo
MBA, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait