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Leon Chua
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Chua first recipient of Kirchhoff Award from IEEE EECS professor Leon Chua, known as the father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks (CNN), is the first recipient of the Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Chua was recognized for his outstanding contributions in the field of electronic circuits and systems, especially the CNN, a new architectural framework for nanoscale electronics and bio-inspired electronic and photonic systems.
He is ranked by the Institute of Scientific Information as one of the top 15 cited authors in all branches of engineering from 1991 to 2001.
A graduate of MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chua joined Berkeley’s faculty in 1970.
For more information on Chua and his research, go to www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~chua/. |
