Sardar Shabanov, born in 1957, in 1996 received the degree of candidate of technical sciences from the Institute of Control Systems of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, specialty 05.13.14 "Information Processing and Control Systems". Since 1995, he has been working at the Azerbaijan State  University of Economics (UNEC), where he is currently an associate professor of the "Mathematics and Statistics" department. His research interests include the quality of education and its impact on the socio-economic and cultural development of the country. He has published several articles in international journals and is a reviewer of some economics journals.