Bich-Yen Nguyen is a Vietnamese electronics engineer specializing in advanced materials and technologies for integrated circuits.
[1] Nguyen is the daughter of a South Vietnamese soldier who died when she was young, leaving her family poor.
[1] Her work there included the development of the multiple-independent-gate field-effect transistor (MIGFET),[2] as well as CMOS technology.
[1] As head of advanced transistor development activities at 2004 Motorola spinoff Freescale Semiconductor, she participated in the Crolles Alliance,[3] an international collaboration on CMOS that extended from 2002 to 2007.
[2] Her work as a vice president of Soitec was highlighted in the 2010 video production Paris by Night 99, honoring successful Vietnamese expatriates worldwide.