Rubin attended Carnegie-Mellon University for his undergraduate studies in Physics and Psychology.
He then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1969 as a Special Student of Psychology before being accepted into graduate school at Harvard University in 1970.
[3][4][5] In 1968, Rubin worked as an Aerospace Engineer for NASA Electronics Research Center in Massachusetts.
From 1974 to 1978 he was an assistant professor of psychology at Lawrence University located in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Some of his most notable honors are: Became a Named Chair in psychology in 2008, Annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series in 2009, Honorary Doctorate at University of Aarhus in 2012, and in 2012, Rubin was elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.