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Mr. Rubin’s extensive professional career of over fifty years has focused primarily on satellite communications and has been diversified in scope and achievements. He served as the ITU’s first satellite expert and was responsible for building the Center of Research and Training in Satellite Communications in India in 1965. Starting in 1970 Mr. Rubin served as the Director of Engineering and Chief Scientist for public broadcasting for over 13 years during the birth of NPR and the expansion of PBS to a satellite-based interconnection system. In 1984 he helped found the first private commercial satellite company, PanAmSat, where he was responsible for PanAmSat’s engineering as Chief Scientist for 17 years.

He began his engineering career at the ITT Laboratories where he designed and built traveling wave tube amplifiers.  While at ITT, he worked on the first commercial earth station ever licensed  by the FCC.  He left ITT for Hughes Aircraft Company where he worked on Syncom 3, the world’s first  geostationary satellite launched in 1963, Early Bird and the ATS 1-5 satellite.

Mr. Rubin founded a consulting company together with Robert Bednarek in 1983 which became RKF Engineering in 2003.  He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a recipient of IEEE’s Centennial Medal for his contributions to satellite communications. He was the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcast Technology for more than 15 years and IEEE’s representative to the ATSC, where he worked on the design of ATSC, the high definition television system now in operation in the US.  Mr. Rubin graduated from the University of the City of New York with a degree in Physics and Electrical Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia.