Leon O. Chua Scientist

Leon Ong Chua (/ˈtʃwɑː/; Chinese: 蔡少棠; pinyin: Cài Shàotáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Siáu-tông; born June 28, 1936) is an IEEE Fellow and 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 28, 1936
Birth name	Leon Ong Chua
Birth place	Philippines
Citizenship	United States
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mapúa Institute of Technology
Known for	Nonlinear system Cellular neural network Chua's circuit Memristor

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awards	IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
doctoral advisor	Mac Van Valkenburg
Field of study	Computer science Electrical engineering Electronic engineering