University of Guelph-Humber

Hang Lai has been teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2008. From 1991 to 2000, Lai was a full-time mathematics and statistics lecturer at the Hanoi University of Finance and accounting in Vietnam (now Academy of Finance, Hanoi). She received a B.Sc. in mathematics from Vietnam National University, Hanoi in 1990, and a M.Sc. from the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics in 1999. She also obtained an additional master’s degree in applied statistics from York University in 2008. Besides teaching at the University of Guelph-Humber, she also teaches courses in mathematics and statistics at Humber College and Sheridan College. Lai is currently working on her PhD in statistics at York University. Her research interests are data analysis and statistical model selection.

Eli Lewin taught business logistics and project management at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2006. Lewin has lived, studied and worked in Israel, South Africa and Canada. His main activities have been in operations management / supply chain management and business information systems as a line manager, project manager and in consulting. In 1999, Lewin landed in Canada to join a private company and in 2000 started teaching at various colleges across Toronto. Lewin joined Humber College in 2005 as a full-time faculty before beginning his teaching at UofGH the next year.

Jaylen McCurbin has been teaching at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2021. McCurbin is an alumnus of the Business program at the University of Guelph-Humber. During his time at the University, McCurbin received multiple case competition awards, most notably 1st place at DECA U Provincials and 2nd place at the Wharton Consulting Competition in Philadelphia, USA. After completing his degree, he worked across Canada for almost five years between Newfoundland and Alberta in the oil & gas sector, while completing his Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation. He then moved back to Toronto where he currently works for Wajax in their Financial Planning & Analysis group. Some of his key career assignments include supporting the final project phases of an offshore drilling platform in Newfoundland and leading business planning initiatives for a mining operation in Fort McMurray. McCurbin is excited to share his industry experiences to help students prepare for their professional lives.