This year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (VICS) Honors Ceremony took place at the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan, on April 23-24, 2025. Various IEEE Awards and Medal Winners were announced.
During the event, Rajendra Asthana, 2025 Life Member Committee Chair and representatives from Math Works, presented the 2025 James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal to Jan M. Rabaey for worldwide impact in integrated circuits and systems through inspirational teaching, textbook development, and visionary leadership.
Jan M. Rabaey is a pioneer and worldwide leader in education on integrated circuit (IC) technology and design. He helped foster a global workforce in these domains through the publication of seminal textbooks and supporting material for students and instructors. In his leadership roles at Berkeley and IMEC, he has served to educate university students and the general population on the promises and challenges of IC technology. During his career, he has graduated 61 PhD students who have significantly impacted industry and academia. He has served in university- and national-level leadership roles as director of the Berkeley Wireless Center and the Gigascale Systems Research Center. In 2024, Rabaey, along with his IMEC colleague Pieter Van Nuffel, published the booklet Chips—How Digital Technology Changes the World, intended for a general audience. It serves to educate the general population as well as aspiring students about the role of ICs in society, what they are, how they are manufactured, and what the future may hold.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Rabaey is Professor Emeritus of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, and Chief Technology Officer, Systems Technology Co-Optimization, imec, Belgium.
