The career of IEEE Fellow, Michel Nakhla, Chancellor's Professor, Carleton University, spans 40 years of academic and industrial contributions. Winner of several best paper awards, he made trend-setting achievements to the state of the art in computer-aided design of large scale and high-speed VLSI circuits and systems. These include harmonic balance algorithms for fast simulation of radio frequency and microwave circuits, model-order reduction techniques to handle large-scale circuits, and innovative macromodeling algorithms to model high-speed distributed interconnects. He has published over 360 peer-reviewed research articles and has provided an exemplary leadership and service as educator, R&D engineering manager, and researcher.