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Leon Chua

Leon O. Chua
Born Leon Ong Chua
(1936-06-28) June 28, 1936 (age 80)
Philippines
Citizenship United States
Fields Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Computer Science
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater Mapúa Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisor Mac Van Valkenburg
Doctoral students See: Ph.D. Dissertations supervised by Chua
Other notable students Stephen P. Boyd
Known for Nonlinear circuit theory
Cellular neural networks
Memristor
Chua's circuit
Chaotic digital CDMA
Notable awards

IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award(1967)
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award (1973)
IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award (1972, 1985, 1989)
M. E. Van Valkenburg Award (1995 and 1998)
IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2000)
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (2005)
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vitold Belevitch Award (2007)

Guggenheim Fellowship (2010)
Children Amy, Michelle, Katrin, Cynthia

IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award(1967)
IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award (1973)
IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award (1972, 1985, 1989)
M. E. Van Valkenburg Award (1995 and 1998)
IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2000)
IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (2005)
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vitold Belevitch Award (2007)

Leon Ong Chua (/ˈwɑː/; Chinese: 蔡少棠; pinyin: Cài Shǎotáng; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai Shao-t'ang; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Siáu-tông; born June 28, 1936) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. He has contributed to nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural network (CNN) theory. He is also the inventor and namesake of Chua's circuit one of the first and most widely known circuits to exhibit chaotic behavior, and was the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the memristor. Thirty-seven years after he predicted its existence, a working solid-state memristor was created by a team led by R. Stanley Williams at Hewlett Packard.


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