His research interests are in network technologies, applications, and performance analysis. He is an editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, program chair of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Sigmetrics 2011, and has received an NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Award, and three paper awards from ACM SIGMETRICS 2000, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Network Protocols ICNP 2003, ACM CoNext 2008, and CoNext second best paper award in 2016. Rubenstein received his PhD in computer science from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.