He began his professional career in 1958 at the US Army Signal Corps R&D Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ working on precision resonators for frequency control and selection, and properties of piezoelectric, and other crystalline materials. He became an Army ST in 1990, and served as Principal Scientist, first of the Electronics Technology & Devices Laboratory, then of the Electronics and Power Sources Directorate of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). He was a member of the original ARL Fellows.

Arthur Ballato received the SB degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1958, the MS degree in EE from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1962, and the PhD degree in Electrophysics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NY, in 1972.

He is a member of advisory committees of various universities; and Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University. He is author of over 350 technical articles and book chapters, more than 50 patents, and editor of several books.

Dr. Ballato is a member of the American Physical Society, International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Sigma Xi, and Electromagnetics Academy. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London), Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to the theory of piezoelectric crystals and frequency control." He received the C. B. Sawyer Memorial Award "for contributions in the field of piezoelectric crystals such as: stacked crystal filters, electric circuit analogs, and stress effects in doubly rotated plates." He has Level III certification in the Army Acquisition Corps, and has four times received the highest Army R&D Award for Technical Achievement. Dr. Ballato has served as member of the Technical Program Committees of the IEEE Intl. Ultrasonics; Intl. Frequency Control; Semiconductor Device Research; European Frequency & Time, and other symposia.

He is an IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) AdCom member, and was for many years its Standards Activities Chairman. He is currently President of UFFC-S. He was the Society's Distinguished Lecturer in 1984-85 on the topic "Frequency and Time Sources," and received its 1992 Achievement Award for "wide-ranging contributions to the fundamental understanding, in both theory and practice, of piezoelectric materials and their application to resonators, filters, and frequency control devices, and for his energetic pursuit of IEEE standards." He received the Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2001. He has served also as Technical Advisory Group member of the US National Committee of the Intl. Electrotechnical Commission, and as member of Army and DoD advisory groups.