Duy-Loan Le

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

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. In 1989 she received her MBA from the University of Houston while working full-time. 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, 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.

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.

Personal life Duy-Loan Le is married to Tuan N. Dao. They have two sons, Dan Dao and Don Dao.