Leon O. Chua | |
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Born | Leon Ong Chua June 28, 1936 |
Nationality | Hoklo (by blood) / American (by domicile) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Mapúa Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Children | 4, including Amy |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering Electronics and communication engineering Computer science |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Nonlinear network analysis -- the parametric approach[1] |
Doctoral advisor | Mac Van Valkenburg[1] |
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Leon Ong Chua (/ˈtʃwɑː/; 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 theory.[2]
He is the inventor and namesake of Chua's circuit[3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6]
Alongside Tamas Roska, Chua also introduced the first algorithmically programmable analog cellular neural network (CNN) processor.[7]