Leon Chua & Amy Chua

Si Amy Chua, author ng "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" at anak ni Leon Chua. Si Leon Chua naman ang father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks at nagmula sa Pilipinas.

Alam nyo ba na si Leon Chua na father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks ay nagmula sa Pilipinas at graduate ng Mapua? At ang anak niya ay si Amy Chua, kilala sa controversial na book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. 

 

Leon Chua

Leon Ong Chua (born June 28, 1936) is an IEEE Fellow and a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. Considered to be the “father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks”, he is also the inventor and namesake of Chua’s circuit and was the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the solid state 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.

A Chinese American, Chua and his fraternal twin sister grew up as members of the Chinese ethnic minority community in the Philippines. He earned his BSEE degree from Mapúa Institute of Technology in the Philippines in 1959, then emigrated to the United States on a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned an MSEE degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1964. His PhD thesis was entitled Nonlinear Network Analysis — The Parametric Approach. Over the ensuing years, he has received eight honorary doctorates.

Chua has four daughters; the eldest, Amy Chua, is a Professor of Law at Yale University. Another daughter, Katrin, is a professor at Stanford University, then two more named Michelle and Cindy.

Amy Chua

Amy L. Chua (born 1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.  Chua graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College in 1984. She obtained her J.D. cum laude in 1987 from Harvard Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Chua has written three books. As of January 2011, she is most noted for her parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Amy Chua’s parents were members of the Chinese ethnic minority in the Philippines before emigrating to the United States.

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