Leon O. Chua
American electrical engineer and computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[disambiguation needed] circuit theory and cellular neural network theory.[2]
Leon O. Chua | |
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Born | Leon Ong Chua (1936-06-28) June 28, 1936 (age 87) |
Nationality | Hoklo / American |
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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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]