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Leon Chua became Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University in 1964, promoted to Associate Professor in 1967, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1970. He is the recipient of the 2005 Gustav Kirchhoff Award, the highest IEEE Technical Field Award for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals and aspects of electronic circuits and systems with long-term significance and impact. He was awarded the prestigious IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2000 for his contributions to neural networks. Elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 1974, he has received numerous international prizes including the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize in 1972, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize in 1978, the Frederick Emmons Award in 1974, and the M. E. Van Valkenburg Award in 1995. He has been awarded 7 US patents and has received 8 Honorary Doctorates from major European universities and Japan. In 2002, he was recognized as one of the top 15 cited authors in engineering. Elected as a foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences in 1997, Chua has significantly contributed to research areas including Cellular Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, and Chaos Theory.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Prominent faculty member, specializing in Electrical Engineering and active in research and education.
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