About the Authors
Dr. Arzu Sardarli is a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the First Nations University of Canada. Dr. Sardarli has worked in leading research institutions and universities in Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Canada. He joined the First Nations University of Canada in 2007. Dr. Sardarli led a number of community-based research and educational projects conducted in First Nations communities. He uses Indigenous elements in his teaching. Dr. Sardarli advocates for holistic methods of teaching and open educational resources. He co-authored the first Cree Dictionary of Mathematical with elements of Indigenous Art. The online version of the Dictionary has been developed within the Open Education Resources program of the University of Regina and published on Pressbook portal and MERLOT.
Dr. Sardarli led a pioneer research project on mathematical modelling of water quality using Indigenous knowledge. He coordinates a nationwide annual Wiseman Mathematics Contest, initiated in 2008. Dr. Sardarli’s projects have been supported by agencies such as NSERC, SSHRC, Health Canada, and Canadian Heritage. He received The Recognition Event Awards of The Regional Centre of Expertise (Saskatchewan) for his innovative Indigenous community-based projects.
Dr. Andrei Volodin is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Regina. His research has focused primarily on Mathematical Statistics and Probability Theory, though his current work has expanded to Applied Statistics. Andrei’s research program revolves around a common theme: asymptotics (expansion of a statistic or of a distribution).
Andrei received his PhD in Mathematics from Vilnius University in Lithuania and his PhD in Statistics from the University of Regina. He spent two years working as a Professor of Statistics at the University of Western Australia and currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Thammasat University in Thailand.
Andrei arrived at the University of Regina in 1999 as a PhD student. In 2000, he started to work as a sessional instructor at the University of Regina, First Nations University of Canada and Saskatchewan Polytechnic. Andrei was hired by the University of Regina as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2002. In 2005 he was promoted to the level tenured Associate Professor and in 2012 he obtained Full Professor status at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina.
