Anatoly A. Yakovlev got his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly Pomona in 2007, where he graduated valedictorian of the School of Engineering. In 2009, he got his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in analog/RF circuits from Stanford University and is now continuing to pursue his Ph.D. degree there. His Ph.D. work focuses on wireless powering and data communication for biomedical devices and system-level architecture of implantable devices.

Between 2007 and 2008 he was with the Advanced Channel Architecture team at Western Digital. In summer 2011, he was with VLSI Group at Oracle Labs working on clock and data recovery circuits for inter- and intra-chip optical interconnects.

Anatoly enjoys windsurfing, snowboarding, and riding his motorcycle in his spare time.