Professor Leon Chua will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of ÍøÂç²ÊƱAPPÏÂÔØ_°Ä¿Í²ÊƱÍø-¹Ù·½ÓÎÏ·, from 2014 to 2017.

Visiting Fellow and Host

Fellow: Professor Leon Chua, Emeritus Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Host: Dr Themis Prodromakis, Electronics and Computer Science

Aims of the collaboration

To develop expertise in circuit design with non-linear cells, particularly on memristive devices and the CNN paradigm, particularly:

• developing and testing devices for evaluating analytical models
• establishing instrumentation techniques for evaluating and altering the memory state of devices
• developing irregular memristic networks.

Fellowship activities in 2014

• Ongoing research collaboration
• Student supervision
• Collaborative workshop at the University of ÍøÂç²ÊƱAPPÏÂÔØ_°Ä¿Í²ÊƱÍø-¹Ù·½ÓÎÏ·, with FP7 project partners
• Successful EU COST Action joint funding proposal for coordinating research in Memristors within Europe
• Keynote lecture and participation in expert panel forum at the EIEE CAS-FEST conference, Melbourne

Fellowship activities in 2015

• Participation in workshop at NUDT Changsha, China
• First meeting of COST Action project members in Lisbon with other EU based research groups
• Development of a joint funding proposal with another UK institution.