Tuyet-Trang “Snow” Lam Piel

Tuyet-Trang “Snow” Lam Piel is returning to her alma mater after 16 years working in industry to serve as a professor of practice in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.

Lam Piel earned her bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France, where she developed a passion for cooking, baking and traveling, before completing her electrical engineering doctoral studies at ASU.

“When I came to ASU as a graduate student, I had the most amazing experience,” Lam Piel says. “I want future ASU students to experience the same joys I did, discover their passions and help create a new generation of successful engineers that will shape the future.”

After graduating from ASU in 2006, Lam Piel began working at Intel as a media software engineer and then became an AI software architect. While at Intel, she contributed to developing the company’s first from-scratch multiformat video decoder.

She received the Intel Recognition Award for her involvement and commitment to building Intel’s consumer electronic business and earned the Intel Appreciation Award for outstanding contributions to the successful operation of the Woman in Technology Leadership Forum. Lam Piel was also awarded for her outstanding contributions to promoting women in engineering as chair of the IEEE Phoenix Women In Engineering Affinity Group.

She is returning to the Sun Devil community with a strong foundation in signal processing, video compression, neural networks and visual analytics. Lam Piel aspires to teach EEE 203 Signals and Systems I and hopes to get involved in more signal processing classes to help her students directly apply the math they are learning to real-world data.

“I see math as an international language that helps explain and manipulate the world around us,” Lam Piel says. “I want to make sure that the students learn the skills and foundational knowledge that will prepare them to be successful in their future careers.”

Meet the newest faculty members of the Fulton Schools of Engineering here.

Written by Hannah Weisman