Professor, member of Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, USSR State Prize Winner, Head of the Department of Control Systems, Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azerbaijan, Director of Joint MBA Program, Georgia State University (USA), Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (Azerbaijan), President of �Zadeh's Legacy and Artificial Intelligence� Association. Rafik A. Aliev was born on February 10, 1942 in Novruzlu Village of Agdam region in Azerbaijan. 1948-1958 A pupil of a secondary school (Agdam). 1958-1963n A student of the Institute of the Oil and Chemistry named after M.Azizbayov, Baku. 1964-1967 A post-graduate student, the Institute of Control Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow). 1967 The candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D). 1975 Doctor of Sciences. 1976 Professor 1989 Membership of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. 1967-1969 The head of the Laboratory in Research Institute Neftkimyaavtomat (ETI). 1989 - present Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA), the head of the Department of Control Systems. 1998 - present Director of MBA Program ASOA, Baku, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. 2001 - presen