Leon O. Chua

Leon Chua received his master's degree from MIT in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University in 1964 and was promoted to associate professor in 1967. He joined UC Berkeley in 1970. Outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems of long-term significance or impact. He also received the prestigious IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2000 for his contributions to neural networks. He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1974 and received many international awards, including the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Award in 1972, the IEEE WRG Baker Award in 1978. Frederick Emmons Award in 1974, ME Van Valkenhurg Award in 1995, and again in 1998. He was awarded 7 US patents and 8 honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from major universities in Europe and Japan. He is also the recipient of the 2002 Top 15 Cited Authors in Engineering Award, selected from the Current Content Database (ISI) of all articles cited in engineering disciplines in the citation index from 1991 to October 31, 2001, from all disciplines. has been Engineering. In 1997, he was elected as a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europea). He is also the recipient of the 2002 Top 15 Cited Authors in Engineering Award, selected from the Current Content Database (ISI) of all articles cited in engineering disciplines in the citation index from 1991 to October 31, 2001, from all disciplines. has been Engineering. In 1997, he was elected as a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europea). He is also the recipient of the 2002 Top 15 Cited Authors in Engineering Award, selected from the Current Content Database (ISI) of all articles cited in engineering disciplines in the citation index from 1991 to October 31, 2001, from all disciplines. has been Engineering. In 1997, he was elected as a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europea).