Our Trainers


Our team of trainers is comprised individuals with strong academic and professional background in statistics, data science and economics.



Data Science trainer


Teaching is an art. My teaching motto was always the following quote by the brilliant Albert Einstein: “If you can’t explain it in a simple way, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Azar Abizada, PhD

Dr. Abizada has obtained his PhD in Economics specialized in Game Theory and Mechanism Design from University of Rochester, NY, USA. Between 2012-2017 he worked at ADA University as Assistant Professor of Economics and since 2017 he is Assoicate Professor of Economics at ADA University. He has taught different variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on Economics and Statistics. Dr. Abizada has published many articles in reputable journals in both Economics and Education.  

Besides his academic life, in 2017, Dr. Abizada founded Optimal Solutions LLC, where he is CEO at the moment. He worked on many projects related to Data Science and Data Analytics.

Dr. Abizada will be trainer in the following data science trainings:

Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis
Probability and Statistics for Actuarial Science
Python for Data Science
Data Analysis with MS Excel
Data Modeling and Database Design
Data Analysis with SPSS

Moreover, he will be teaching in the following academic research trainings and university admission preparations:

Quantitative Analysis (Academic Research Training)
GRE and GMAT Quantitative Reasoning (University Admission)


Ruslan Aliyev, PhD

Dr. Aliyev has obtained his PhD in Economics from CERGE-EI, Charles University, Czech Republic. Since 2015 he is Assistant Professor of Economics at ADA University. He has taught different variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on Economics, Statistics and Econometrics. Dr. Aliyev has published several articles in reputable journals in Economics. His research interests are Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economic Growth and Development.

Besides his academic life, Dr. Aliyev consults for different international and local organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, Asian Development Bank, Czech National Bank, Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan

Dr. Aliyev will be trainer in the following data science trainings:

Data Analysis with STATA
Basics of R for Data Analysis
Data Analysis with SPSS

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Toghrul Talibzadeh

Mr. Talibzadeh is a Business Analysis professional with more than 10 years of experience in process analysis and architecting, data analytics and visualization, consulting in building software integrated business processes. He has obtained his first bachelor and master degree in Applied Mathematics from Baku State University, and second degree in Business Administration specialized in Information Management from the Philipp University of Marburg. After graduation, Mr. Talibzadeh has worked in different positions at Nar (Azerfon), where his last position was Manager pf Sales and Project Performance Analytics. Later he worked at ADA Univesity as Manager and later Director of Academic Analysis and Planning. He is currently working as Chief Development Officer at Eurodesign CSC.

Besides his professional life, Mr. Talibzadeh has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses at ADA University on Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Mr. Talibzadeh will be trainer in the following data science trainings:

Data Visualization with Tableau
Data Visualization with PowerBI

Lala Jumayeva, PhD

Dr. Jumayeva has obtained her PhD in Political Science and International Studies from University of Birmingham, UK. Since 2019 she is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at ADA University, where she was Adjunt Instructor for 6 years. She has taught different variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on Conflict Resolution, International Relations, Organizations and Development. Dr. Jumayeva has published several articles in reputable journals in International Relations.

Besides her job at ADA University, Dr. Jumayeva held many trainings on Research Methods and Academic Writing, where main audience was master and PhD students together with young researchers in the country.

Dr. Jumayeva will be trainer in the following academic trainings:

Research Methods
Academic Writing

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Anar Valiyev, PhD

Dr. Valiyev has obtained his PhD in Urban Studies specialized in Urban/City, Community and Regional Planning from University of Louisville, KY, USA. Between 2008-2017 he worked at ADA University as Assistant Professor of Public Policy and since 2017 he is Assoicate Professor of Public Policy at ADA University. He also held Dean position at School of Public and International Affairs at ADA University since 2008. He has taught different variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on Public Policy, Research Methods and Urban Studies. Dr. Valiyev has published many articles in reputable journals in both Public Policy and Urban Studies.  

Besides his academic life, Dr. Valiyev held many trainings on Research Methods and Policy Analysis.

Dr. Valiyev will be trainer in the following academic trainings:

Research Methods

Tural Huseynov

Mr. Huseynov has obtained his bachelor in Mathematics and masters in Economics from Bilkent University, Turkey. Later, he obtained his second masters degree in Economics from Tilburg University. Since 2014 he is Instructor of Mathematics and Statistics at ADA University, where he has taught different variety of undergraduate courses on Calculus and Economics.

Mr. Huseynov will be intructor in the following university admissions preparations:

SAT Mathematics
IB Mathematics
IB Economics

University preparation


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