Professor Arokia Nathan is a visionary technologist as reflected in his 600 technical publications, 6 books, and over 150 granted patents. His approach to engineering research and development is broad and comprehensive, encompassing fundamental device science, process development and manufacturing, device and circuit inventions to achieve new systems in large-area and flexible electronics. He was awarded the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award. The impact of his research led to the formation of IGNIS Innovation (Founder), Cambridge Touch Technologies (Co-Founder), ACXEL (Co-Founder), CAM-XT (Co-Founder), ibmetrix (Co-Founder) and VISBAN Networks (Co-Founder) with combined venture capital investment more than US $100 million.