Leon O. Chua

Leon O. Chua
Leon O. Chua
蔡少棠
	Chua at the NOLTA Symposium in 1993
Born	Leon Ong Chua; June 28, 1936; Philippines
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Mapúa University (BS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS); University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
Known for	Nonlinear circuit theory; Cellular neural networks; Memristor; Chua's circuit;
Children	4, including Amy
Awards	IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award (1967); IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award (1973); IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award (1972, 1985, 1989); M. E. Van Valkenburg Award (1995, 1998); IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2000); IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award (2005); IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vitold Belevitch Award (2007); Guggenheim Fellowship (2010);
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering; Electronics and communication engineering; Computer science
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Nonlinear network analysis -- the parametric approach
Doctoral advisor	Mac Van Valkenburg
Notable students	Stephen P. Boyd; Sung-Mo Kang; Orla Feely;
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	蔡少棠
Simplified Chinese	蔡少棠
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Cài Shǎotáng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Chhòa Siáu-tông

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 a Filipino-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 and is recognized as the "Father of Nonlinear Circuit Theory" or electronic devices from nonlinear components.

He is 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.

Alongside Tamas Roska, Chua also introduced the first algorithmically programmable analog cellular neural network (CNN) processor.