Arto Chubukjian

Arto Chubukjian

1944 - 2026

It is with profound grief and sadness that I, Annie, announce the death of my lovely brother, Dr. Arto Chubukjian, PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Electromagnetics and Field Magnetics, who had always remained my rock, regardless of all challenges of our lives. 

Arto was never married or had children of his own, but he adored them, greatly. He was devoted to science all his life. But when it came to family or friends he was always there.

He was a devoted Public Service member, who worked close to 40 years in various Federal Government Sectors, finally ending up at CRTC until he retired. 

The following is from December 2013, Friends of CRTC Files which describes him more accurately and, in more detail, than I ever could.

Meet the Friends' Board:

Arto Chubukjian Ph.D., P.Eng., Life Member IEEE.

Arto is our most recent Friends' Board member, joining in 2013.

Arto Chubukjian earned his B.A.Sc. degree in 1971 from the University of Toronto, the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and in 2000 respectively, from the University of Ottawa, all of them in electrical engineering.

He has been a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario since 1975, an IEEE member since 1968 and a member of IEEE EMC Society (EMCS) since 1987. He has served as EMCS TC-6 (Spectrum Management) chair for 12 years, and as vice-chair of EMCS Technical Activities Committee for six years. He is currently a Life Member of IEEE.

Arto Chubukjian has had a varied career spanning 40 years involving digital control systems, computers and computer controlled systems, weapon systems engineering, avionics and sensor systems engineering, EMC analysis and interference mitigation, electromagnetics, radars, antennas, propagation, HERF, HERO, HERP, Ultra Wide Band, power line telecommunications (BPL), neural networks, and computational electromagnetics.

Invited to join CRC in 2000, he carried out research on several EMC spectrum projects for Industry Canada, and chaired the Compatibility Drafting Group under the ITU Task Group 1/8 on Ultrawide and Compatibility with distinction.

Further, he was invited to chair the research task group of the NATO Research and Technology Agency that studied the effects of power line telecommunications on the HF spectrum (IST-050 RTG), results of which were widely acclaimed within NATO and within the stakeholders of the HF spectrum.

He finished his career in November 2012 as Research Program Manager in the Electromagnetics and Compatibility Research Group at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Friends and family are invited to attend the funeral service on Friday, May 29, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. at Barker Funeral Home (19 McArthur Ave, Carleton Place), interment will follow at United Cemeteries of Saint Fillans, Maple Wood, and Pine Grove (2677 Cemetery Side Rd, Carleton Place).

If desired, the family would be grateful for memorial donations made to the Lanark Highland Food Pantry (please note this charity is different from the Lanark County Foodbank).

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