Alexander I. Malekhanov was born in Nizhny Novgorod (formerly Gorky), Russia, in 1960. He received the M.S. degree in physics from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1983 and the candidate of science degree (analogous to the Ph.D. degree) in radio physics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University in 1998.
Since 1983, he has been with the Division of Hydrophysics and Hydroacoustics of the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod, and is presently a Senior Research Scientist. Since 1993, he has also been a Lecturer at the Department of Radio Physics of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. His research interests include antenna theory and signal processing with applications to underwater acoustics.
Dr. Malekhanov received the URSI Young Scientist Award at the 24th URSI General Assembly (1993). He is a member of the Russian Acoustical Society.