Prior to joining Inha University, Dr. Abdullaev had been a PhD researcher at King's College London under the supervision of Prof. Peter McBurney where he undertook a research on the auction-based models of financial derivatives market and successfully defended his thesis in 2016. Dr. Abdullaev is the author of more than 15 conference and journal papers, and a frequent speaker at international scientific forums. His research interests are in the fields of multi-agent systems, distributed computing, mechanism design and financial engineering. Besides academic research, Dr. Abdullaev has more than 10 years of experience in professional software development and consultancy for international enterprises. He is also actively involved in organizing public IT events such as programming workshops, hackathons, startup seminars and contests.