Leon Chua

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Leon O. Chua ( Chinese  蔡少棠 , Pinyin Cài Shàotáng , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Chhòa Siáu-tông ; born June 28, 1936 in the Philippines ) is an American engineer and professor at the University of California, Berkeley . Chua was born a Filipino and belonged to the Chinese minority there.

Life

In 1959 he received his Bachelor of Engineering from the Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila , his Masters from MIT in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He was then an assistant professor at Purdue University , where he was appointed lecturer in 1967. In 1970 he went to UC Berkeley.

In 1971 he postulated the memristor . In 1983 he described the Chua's Circuit . In 1988 he introduced Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNN).

He is internationally known in his three research areas:

He is also the father of Amy Chua .

Since 1997 he has been an external member of the Academia Europaea . In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden "in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements in the field of network and system theory". He is also honorary doctor of the University of Frankfurt am Main , the KUL Leuven , the Technical University of Iași , the Technical University of Budapest , the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and other universities.

Works

  • Introduction to Nonlinear Network Theory. McGraw-Hill, 1969; Hungtington, NY 1978; 3 volumes:
    • Foundations of nonlinear network theory
    • Resistive nonlinear networks
    • Dynamic nonlinear networks
  • CNN: A Paradigm for Complexity. World Scientific, Singapore 1998

As co-author:

  • Computer Aided Analysis of Electronic Circuits: Algorithms and Computational Techniques. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1975
  • Linear and Nonlinear Circuits. McGraw-Hill, New York 1987
  • Practical Numerical Algorithms for Chaotic Systems. Springer-Verlag, New York 1989
  • Methods of Qualitative Theory of Nonlinear Dynamics. World Scientific, Singapore 1998

Awards

  • 1967: IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award
  • 1973: IEEE WRG Baker Prize Award
  • 1974: Frederick Emmons Terman Award
  • 1976: Miller Research Professorship
  • 2000: IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
  • 2005: Gustav Kirchhoff Award
  • 2015: Laurea Honoris Causa from Politecnico di Torino

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chua, Leon O. "Memristor-the missing circuit element." Circuit Theory, IEEE Transactions on 18.5 (1971): 507-519.
  2. ^ Membership directory: Leon O. Chua. Academia Europaea, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  3. ^ Directory of honorary doctoral candidates at the TH / TU Dresden
  4. ↑ Politecnico di Torino: Laurea ad Honorem: prof. Chua
personal data
SURNAME Chua, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chua, Leon O .; Chhòa Siáu-tông (Pe̍h-ōe-jī); 蔡少棠 (Chinese); Cài Shàotáng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer, professor at the University of California, Berkeley
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Philippines