Duy-Loan T. Le (born 1962) is an engineer and the first woman and Asian elected as a Texas Instruments Senior Fellow."Profile: Duy-Loan Le", Keynote speakers, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery, 2010
Early life Le was born on July 17, 1962 in Nha Trang, South Vietnam. She left Vietnam in 1975, traveling with her mother and six of her siblings. The family moved to Houston where she started school having been placed into sixth grade. While she did not know English when she first moved to Houston, she studied the langauage and graduated from Alief Hastings High School at 16 as valedictorian of her class. Education Le graduated from the University of Texas at Austin magna cum laude in 1982 when she was 19 years old. In 1989 she received her MBA from the University of Houston while working full-time.
Career Le started working at Texas Instruments after she graduated from college, her first position was as a memory design engineer.
She was elected to the Technical Staff in 1990, and by 1993 she was a Senior Member of Technical Staff. In 1997 Le was elected as distinguished member of the Technical Staff. In 1998 she became the first women at Texas Instruments to be named a fellow, along with fellow engineer Wanda Gass. As of 2005, she was one of six people who have been named as a senior fellow at Texas Instruments.
Her later work at Texas Instruments centered on digital signal processing. Through her work at Texas Instruments she has filed 24 patents.
Philanthropy Le has worked to advance education and learning conditions in Vietnam. Le was a founding member of Sunflower Mission, which helps with educational settings in Vietnam. She also serves as director for the Mona Foundation, a group that focuses on education."Director Biography: Duy-Loan Le" , Mona Foundation
Honors and awards In 1976, she received her first recognition in the US as 'Citizen of the Month' from Kiwanis International Club.
In 1981, The Houston Chronicle featured her as 'Scholastic Wonder'; she also received commendation from The Office of The Ambassador of The Royal Netherlands for her scholastic achievement and her humanitarian effort in fund raising to aid the Vietnamese refugees.
In 2002 she was named National Technologist of the Year at the Women of Color Conference. She received the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Leadership in 2007.
In 2001 she was named to Women in Technology International's International Hall of Fame, and in 2017 she was named to the Asian Hall of Fame.
Personal life Duy-Loan Le is married to Tuan N. Dao. They have two sons, Dan Dao and Don Dao.
References
External links Sunflower Mission's Official Website Brief biography of Duy-Loan Le - Science National Honor Society Asian American Forum 2003 Leadership Institute, Duy-Loan Le as one of the Featured Speakers Quick facts on Duy-Loan Le - University of Texas at Austin, Thursday, July 31, 2003 Duy-Loan Le: Bold Visions Women in Science and Technology" , TV documentary "Interview with Duy-Loan Le", Blacktie Arizona