He obtained his MS degree in the area of Mathematical Methods in Economics and Control (Management) in Mechanical Engineering Enterprises from Kama State Polytechnic Institute (now a part of Kazan Federal University, a top-ranked and prestigious university in Russia) and has a PhD degree in Mathematical Modelling, Numeric Methods, Program Software from Ulyanovsk State University (the university was previously known as Lomonosov Moscow State University in Ulyanovsk city, the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin) in Russia. 

At the beginning of his academic career, he held the positions of Assistant Professor in the Department of Geometry and Mathematical Modelling at Tatar State University of Humanities and Education and the Department of Special Mathematics at Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University, Kazan, Russia. He then moved to Seoul National University, South Korea, where he was a postdoc in the Computer-Aided Design and Information Technology Lab (CADIT Lab) at the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering. From 2011 to 2015, he was a faculty member in Istanbul, Turkey.  He was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University (2012, 2014, 2016) and Shizuoka University (2013, 2014, 2020, 2023), one of the leading national universities in Japan.

Rushan Ziatdinov was an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Keimyung University in Daegu, renowned for its international character and one of the most beautiful campuses in South Korea.

His research interests include computer-aided geometric design, applied AI, CAD/CAM, visualisation, computer models in science and engineering, educational technologies. Professor Ziatdinov is an editor for several engineering and educational journals and the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications published in top-tier journals.

Professor Ziatdinov enjoys composing and reading poems, quotes, and sayings, as well as photography and video production. In the past, he enjoyed playing chess and proposed one of the chess variants.