He is known for a number of inventions, including:
* The Chua circuit, a chaotic electronic circuit.
* The Chua’s oscillator, a chaotic system.
* The Chua diode, a negative resistance device.
* The Chua’s attractor, a mathematical object that describes the behavior of the Chua circuit.
Boy Chua is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Chua’s Laboratory for Dynamical Systems.