Duy-Loan T. Le came to America in 1975 with no father and a family of 9, most women and children. In 1976, she received her first recognition in the US as 'Citizen of the Month' from Kiwanis International Club. She graduated as Valedictorian from Alief Hastings High School at 16 in 1979 and three years later received her BSEE from University of Texas with High Honor. Duy-Loan obtained her MBA from University of Houston. In 1981, Houston Chronicle featured her as 'Scholastic Wonder', the University of Texas named her ‘Scholarship Winner Out Of The Ordinary' ,and Duy-Loan 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 1982, Duy-Loan started as a memory design engineer at the age of 19 with Texas Instruments (TI), a world wide company on the list of Fortune 500 and a leader in Digital Signal Processor and Analog. Duy-Loan managed world wide project teams and was responsible for bringing up TI memory devices, a multi-billion-product line, with joint venture partners on 3 continents for the ‘first’ time in TI’s history. She is currently the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Advanced Technology Ramp Manager, managing development projects using cutting edge technology at Texas Instruments.

In 2002, Duy-Loan became the first Oriental and the first woman to get elected TI Senior Fellow in Texas Instruments’ 75 years of history, joining 4 other men who hold this prestigious title TI world wide, and today she remains the only woman with this title. Duy-Loan holds 21 patents with 8 pending applications. She has been featured in IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) SPECTRUM, Asian Enterprise trade journals, a book titled “The Pride of Vietnamese”, and numerous local and international newspapers. Duy-Loan serves on the Board of National Instruments, a NASDAQ company he headquartered in Austin. Duy-Loan is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) .