Drakin A.E., born in 1954, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1977 with a Degree in “Electronics and Automation” and qualified as an “Engineer-Physicist”; In 1997 he successfully presented his dissertation: "The optical properties of mesa strip line heterolasers based on the solid solutions A3B5" for the Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. He has been working at the LPI since 1977. He is a Leading Researcher since 2006.

The development and study of injection lasers in the visible and near-IR regions and simulation of their irradiative characteristics are of the main scientific interest.  Drakin A.E. is co-author of 58 publications.