Anatoly Khina was born in Moscow, and holds a BSc (summa cum laude, 2006), MSc (summa cum laude, 2010) and PhD (2016) from Tel Aviv University, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Caltech. His research interests include information theory, control theory, signal processing and matrix analysis.

Parallel to his studies, Anatoly has worked as an engineer in various roles focused on algorithms, software and hardware R&D. He is a recipient of the Fulbright, Rothschild and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships; Clore Scholarship; Trotsky Award; Weinstein Prize in signal processing, Intel award for research; and the first prize for outstanding research work in the field of communication technologies from the Advanced Communication Center's Feder Family Award program.