Slobodan Ćuk

Slobodan Ćuk is an author, inventor, business owner, electrical engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Ćuk switched-mode DC-to-DC voltage converter is named after Slobodan Ćuk.

Non-isolated switching topologies

Slobodan's parents are Milojko and Julijana Ćuk. He is bilingual, American English and Serbian. On February 29, 1972, Slobodan immigrated from Belgrade, Yugoslavia to United States and was sponsored by NASA.

Slobodan received a Dipl.Ing. from University of Belgrade in 1970, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University in 1974; and a Ph.D. in Power Electronics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1977.

For over 20 years, he was a full-time Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology until January 1, 2000.

In 1979, Slobodan founded TESLAco, which is currently located in Laguna Niguel, California. It had a charter to apply basic research results developed at Caltech for practical commercial and military designs.

Over 30 patents have Slobodan Ćuk's name on them.

• June 2004, Nikola Tesla Medal by Serbia and Montenegro for highest scientific achievements.
• October 2000, TESLA-PUPIN Gold Medal from Society of Yugoslav Inventors.
• May 1991, Franklin Institute Medal for Cuk converter and Integrated Magnetics inventions.