Born 1935 in
Riga, Latvia, Bubenko fled with his family to Sweden at the end of World War II in 1944. He received his MSc in
civil engineering from the
Chalmers University of Technology in
Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1958, his Licentiate of Technology in
structural mechanics also from the Chalmers University of Technology in 1958. In 1973 he received his Ph.D. in
information systems from the
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1973, and his
habilitation in 1974. In 1961 Bubenko started his career as a manager in Univac Scandinavia, a branch of the U.S. computer company Univac. In 1965 he started as an assistant professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, where in 1969 he founded the research group Computer Aided Design of Information Systems (CADIS). From 1977 to 1981 he was a professor of computer and systems sciences at
University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, and from 1981 to 2000 professor at the Royal Institute of Technology and University of Stockholm. Bubenko has chaired multiple information systems conferences since the late 1970s. He is member of
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, and the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.1. Bubenko died on 15 January 2022 in Lund, Sweden, at the age of 86. ==Publications==