The Leon O. Chua award is presented annually to an undergraduate or graduate student, or to a recent alumnus, for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science from any discipline, including biological, engineering, mathematical, physical and social sciences. It was made possible by a donation in 1999 from Professor Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, a student of Professor Chua and former Chancellor of U.C. Merced.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Anastasios Angelopoulos, Hao Liu, Sherry Yang, Yaodong Yu
  • 2022-2023 Marius Wiggert
  • 2021-2022 Alex Devonport
  • 2020-2021 MARGARET PFEIFFER CHAPMAN
  • 2019-2020 Mindy Perkins
  • 2018-2019 Jaime Fernandez Fisac
  • 2017-2018 Xi Chen
  • 2016-2017 Tianshi Wang
  • 2015-2016 Dorsa Sadigh
  • 2014-2015 Walid Krichene
  • 2013-2014 Samuel Donald Coogan
  • 2012-2013 Wenchao Li
  • 2011-2012 Anil Aswani
  • 2010-2011 Susmit Kumar Jha
  • 2009-2010 Christian Claudel
  • 2008-2009 Forrest Sedgwick
  • 2007-2008 Xiaoxue Zhao
  • 2006-2007 XuanLong Nguyen
  • 2005-2006 Alessandro Abate
  • 2004-2005 Aaron Ames
  • 2003-2004 Arnab Nilim
  • 2002-2003 Jianghi Hu
  • 2001-2002 Rupak Majumdar
  • 2000-2001 Jie Liu