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Duy-Loan T. Le

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Duy-Loan T. Le
Born1962
Nha Trang, South Vietnam
🏳️ CitizenshipUSA
🏫 EducationBSEE, magna cum laude, University of Texas at Austin (1982)
MBA, University of Houston (May 1989)
🎓 Alma materThe University of Texas at Austin and The University of Houston
💼 Occupation
Engineer & Engineering Manager
👔 EmployerTexas Instruments
Known forEngineering and the being the first woman and Asian elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow. Charity work and philanthropy (including the Sunflower Mission and Mona Foundation)
Notable work24 patents and co-designing the fastest Digital signal processor (DSP) chip (2004 Guinness World Records) [1]
Board member ofMona Foundation; Science National Honor Society; Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF); National Instruments Corporation[2]
👩 Spouse(s)Tuan N. Dao
👶 Childrentwo sons, Dan Dao and Don Dao
🏅 AwardsTop 20 Houston Women in Technology in 2000; Women in Technology Hall of Fame in 2001; Asian American Engineer of the year; 2007 Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Leadership; Congressional Special Recognition for Civil Leadership

Duy-Loan T. Le (born 1962) is an engineer and the first woman and Asian elected as a Texas Instruments Senior Fellow.[3]

Early life

Le was born on July 17, 1962 in Nha Trang, South Vietnam.[4] 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.[5] While she did not know English when she first moved to Houston,[6] she studied the langauage and graduated from Alief Hastings High School at 16 as valedictorian of her class.[5]

Education

Le graduated from the University of Texas at Austin magna cum laude in 1982 when she was 19 years old.[7] In 1989 she received her MBA from the University of Houston while working full-time.[8][4]

Career

Le started working at Texas Instruments after she graduated from college,[9] her first position was as a memory design engineer.[10]

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,[11][5] along with fellow engineer Wanda Gass.[12] As of 2005, she was one of six people who have been named as a senior fellow at Texas Instruments.[5][13]

Her later work at Texas Instruments centered on digital signal processing.[4] Through her work at Texas Instruments she has filed 24 patents.[4]

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.[5] She also serves as director for the Mona Foundation, a group that focuses on education.[14]

Honors and awards

In 1976, she received her first recognition in the US as 'Citizen of the Month' from Kiwanis International Club.[citation needed]

In 1981, The Houston Chronicle featured her as 'Scholastic Wonder';[15] 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.[16][better source needed]

In 2002 she was named National Technologist of the Year at the Women of Color Conference.[17] She received the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Leadership in 2007.[18][10]

In 2011 she was named to the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame,[8] and in 2017 she was named to the Asian Hall of Fame.[19][20]

Personal life

Duy-Loan Le is married to Tuan N. Dao. They have two sons, Dan Dao and Don Dao.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile: Duy-Loan Le" Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, 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
  2. ↑ "Profile: Duy-Loan Le : Independent Director, National Instruments Corporation", Forbes
  3. ↑ "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
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Duy-Loan Le". Computer technology innovators. Internet Archive. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing, Grey House Publishing. 2013. pp. 174–176. ISBN 978-1-4298-3805-4. Search this book on
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Castaneda, Katania (2005-04-21). "Engineer calls hard work key to success". The Houston Chronicle. p. 452. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  6. ↑ Kegley, Lauren E. (2021). "The Power of Uniqueness: A Fireside Chat With Duy-Loan Le [Women in Engineering]". IEEE Power Electronics Magazine. 8 (3): 62–65. doi:10.1109/MPEL.2021.3099465. ISSN 2329-9215.
  7. ↑ Times, Vietnam (2017-11-14). "Vietnamese - American female engineer as first woman and Asian elected Texas Instruments Senior Fellow". Vietnam Times. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "WITI - Hall of Fame (Duy-Loan Le)". www.witi.com. Archived from the original on 2004-03-01. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  9. ↑ Ongaro, Laura (2001-11-29). "Success professional puts focus on her family". The Houston Chronicle. p. 235. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Barnhill, John (2024). "Duy-Loan Le". EBSCO Research Starters.
  11. ↑ Nguyen, Cuong Quoc (August 10, 2005). "Vietnamese Defies Odds to Become A Top Woman in Technology". Nha Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-04-19. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  12. ↑ Caleb Pirtle (2005). Engineering the world. Internet Archive. Southern Methodist University Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-87074-502-7. Search this book on
  13. ↑ Zheng, Chunhua Zen (2003-03-27). "Vietnamese honored for community service". The Houston Chronicle. p. 476. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  14. ↑ "Director Biography: Duy-Loan Le" Archived 2011-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, Mona Foundation
  15. ↑ Karkabi, Barbara (1981-03-17). "In U.S. only 6 years, she's become a scholastic wonder". The Houston Chronicle. pp. [1], [2]. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  16. ↑ "Duy-Loan T. Le". Science National Honor Society. Archived from the original on February 12, 2007. Retrieved August 4, 2026.
  17. ↑ Deen, Lango (2023). "2023 Women of the Year". Women of Color Magazine. 23 (1): 46–52. ISSN 1937-0555.
  18. ↑ "IEEE Annual Report" (PDF). IEEE Computer Society. 2007. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 20, 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2011. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ Cruz, Jason (May 19, 2017). "Asian Hall of Fame Inducts 2017 Class". Northwest Asian Weekly. Retrieved 19 May 2017.CS1 maint: Date and year (link)
  20. ↑ "Texas ECE Alum Duy-Loan Le Inducted into Asian Hall of Fame | Texas ECE - Electrical & Computer Engineering at UT Austin". ece.utexas.edu. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2026-08-05.

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