Slobodan Ćuk

Slobodan Ćuk
Pronunciation	Chook
Nationality	American (from Yugoslavia)
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Known for	Ćuk converter
Awards	See below

Slobodan Ćuk is an author, inventor, business owner, electrical engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Ćuk switched-mode DC-to-DC voltage converter is named after Slobodan Ćuk.

Slobodan's parents are Milojko and Julijana Ćuk. He is bilingual, American English and Serbian. On February 29, 1972, Slobodan immigrated from Belgrade, Yugoslavia to United States and was sponsored by NASA.

Slobodan received a Dipl.Ing. from University of Belgrade in 1970, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in 1974; and a Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1977.

For over 20 years, he was a full-time Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology until January 1, 2000.

In 1979, Slobodan founded TESLAco, which is currently located in Laguna Niguel, California. It had a charter to apply basic research results developed at Caltech for practical commercial and military designs.

Over 30 patents have Slobodan Ćuk's name on them.

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