Minh Le

A career at the intersection of
technology and human-centered education.

Minh Le greeting Dr. Thomas Bailey, President of Teachers College — Minh greets Dr. Thomas Bailey, President of Teachers College

Minh Le is currently Principal Instructional Designer, working at Digital Futures Institute (DFI) of Teachers College, Columbia University where he is leading various initiatives to materialize the institute's mission

to support digital innovation and build the future of learning within and beyond Teachers College

He is recognized as an expert in innovative digital pedagogy, learning design, and educational technology, with 15 years of experience spanning higher education, government, and the nonprofit sector across Vietnam and the United States.

He has built his career at the intersection of technology and human-centered education, designing learning systems, leading faculty development, launching emerging technology programs, and advising institutions on how to integrate AI without losing sight of what education is fundamentally for. His driving conviction, across every role he has held, is that technology should strengthen human creativity and ethical judgment, not replace them.

Education and credentials.

Master of Arts

Instructional Technology and Media

Teachers College, Columbia University

Graduate Certificate

Instructional Technology

St. Cloud State University

Fifteen years across institutions, governments and founders' tables.

2026 · Now

Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer

Lingriser

2022 · Now

Founder

Edventure Design
New York, NY

2018 · Now

Chief Technology Officer

Career Pass Institute

2017 · Now

Principal Instructional Designer

Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY

2013 · 2016

Media & Technology Specialist

U.S. Consulate General
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2011 · 2013

Chief Technology Executive

American Chamber of Commerce
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Programs led at Columbia.

01 / Principal Instructional Designer

Digital Futures Institute

Oversees internal training and course development for the entire college, including some of the most distinguished executive programs in partnership with Google, West Point Academy, Oxford, HEC Paris, and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

02 / Faculty Development

Pedagogical Innovation Fellows

Leads the Pedagogical Innovation Fellows Program, supporting faculty in reimagining their courses through emerging technology and creative pedagogy.

03 / Founder & Co-Lead

DFI Immersive Learning & DREAMS

Founded the DFI Immersive Learning Initiative and co-led the DREAMS Initiative, two programs that brought VR and immersive technology into TC's curriculum and extended into New York City public schools.

04 / Professional Development

Faculty & K-12 Educator Training

Has led professional development programs for faculty across Teachers College and K-12 teachers throughout New York City on innovative teaching practices and emerging technology integration, particularly AI and VR.

Selected honors and awards.

Meritorious Honor Award

Jan 2017

For outstanding support of media coverage of President Obama's visit to Ho Chi Minh City.

Franklin Award

Jun 2016

For the passionate participation and contributions toward creating an innovative outreach strategy in educating host country nationals about immigrant visa procedures in Vietnam.

Meritorious Honor Award

Jun 2016

For outstanding service in support of the highly successful Ninth U.S.–Vietnam Science and Technology Joint Committee Meeting in HCMC.

Certificate of Appreciation

Jun 2016

For superlative teamwork and creative, dogged and highly effective on-the-spot support for the innovative Ambassador's Bike Outreach Program, a new Journey from Hanoi to Hue that broke new ground in broadening and strengthening people-to-people ties between Americans and Vietnamese.

Meritorious Honor Award

Dec 2015

For outstanding teamwork, flexibility, and communication in ensuring a successful and productive visit to Ho Chi Minh City by the Second Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden.

Meritorious Honor Award

Nov 2015

For demonstrating exceptional teamwork and dedication in planning and executing Secretary John F. Kerry's visit to Hanoi marking the 20th Anniversary of normalized diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam.

Meritorious Honor Award

Jun 2015

For outstanding service, sustained effort, innovation, support and achievement in, and project management of the renovation of the American Center, which resulted in a state-of-the-art platform for United States Government engagement with people in southern Vietnam.

Meritorious Honor Award

Dec 2014

For building new communications platforms and developing innovative programs that have greatly expanded the Public Affairs Section's ability to promote key Mission messages.

Extra Mile Award

Jul 2014

For extraordinary effort in managing all of the day-to-day programming at the American Center and organizing the LGBT Pride Month series, one of the most innovative and sustained campaigns ever despite having limited human resources at his disposal.

Meritorious Honor Award

May 2014

For exceptional teamwork in advancing mission goals through John Kerry's first visit to Vietnam as Secretary of State.

A sought-after voice on the future of education.

Beijing, June 2025

Tsinghua University High School Anniversary Summit

Keynote on the AI-empowered future of K-12 education, delivered to Chinese educators, school leaders, and international delegates at one of China's most prestigious high school institutions affiliated with Tsinghua University.

UNITAR & Shanghai University Delegation · Teachers College, September 2025

Emerging Technologies in Education: A Teachers College Perspective

Featured interactive session on emerging technologies in education, opened by TC Provost KerryAnn O'Meara and Ambassador Marco Suazo, Head of the UNITAR New York Office. Audience: senior UN officials, Shanghai University faculty, and technology investors.

February 2025 · Columbia University

Fulbright Taiwan Professional Development Program

AI and multimodal learning workshop for Fulbright exchange participants hosted at Columbia University.

Vietnam · 2025

Vietnam AI Literacy Tour

Faculty workshops on practical AI applications in teaching, beginning at VinUniversity, continuing to Thai Nguyen University in the north, and concluding at HUTECH University in Ho Chi Minh City.

Spring 2024

Georgian Teachers of Tomorrow Program

Workshop and follow-on webinar for Georgian university educators; the program is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and TC's Office of Global Engagement.

2024, 2025, 2026

American Spaces Coordinators Webinar Series

Annual online workshop for U.S. State Department-funded American Spaces staff — 20 participants from 20 countries each year. Now in its third consecutive year.

January 2025 · Digital Futures Institute

Korean Elementary Educators Delegation

Consultation visit with nine elementary educators selected by Korea's Ministry of Education for FETC, on AI in the classroom, AI-integrated textbooks, and balancing digital innovation with emotional support for students.

Selected Conference Presentations.

2026 Columbia CTL Symposium · Columbia University, New York

Designing an AI Lab for Educators

Presented the design and development of an AI Lab for Educators online course at the Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning Symposium, sharing the curriculum design process and lessons learned from building TC Academy's flagship AI literacy course.

What clients say.

Minh was instrumental in updating my Canvas courses to the new format. The new look and feel is extremely polished and I received several comments from students sharing how much they liked it. Minh has also provided me with an enormous amount of support in addressing some of my technology classes. Overall, his support has helped to make this semester really successful through the online transition.

The work Minh did for us is beautiful. It is simply terrific. The graphics, layout, look and feel of everything is wonderful, but I was most impressed by how Minh clearly studied the content and made the slides reflect the content so well, even though he is not an organizational psychologist! Further, our deadline kept changing due to some back and forth with our client and we often asked Minh to do one thing and meet one deadline only to have to then ask him to do something different on a shorter deadline. No matter, through it all, Minh was gracious, hard-working, fast, and just so uber competent. He was a gift.

Minh has helped me solve numerous and varied problems related to online teaching. He is creative, patient, exceedingly skilled and competent, and also a very kind man! I love working with Minh and am so grateful for his expertise. He has made my courses exceedingly better in our virtual environment.

Minh Le was my Instructional Designer. And he has been a jewel. Minh began our journey with a Zoom meeting to learn what I was looking for. Then he took my existing course and overlaid the TC template, which is outstanding. It's both attractive and user-friendly. Minh and I continued communicating via email as the course took its final shape. Every time that I asked him to add, delete, or edit, he completed the work quickly and without error. In fact, each time that we communicated, I found Minh to be a good listener (reader), client-focused, fast and efficient, professional and talented. I'm super impressed with the final product but more than that, I'm super impressed with Minh Le.

All I can say is WOW!!!! We are over the moon about this design. It is everything we could have ever dreamed of, and that's a high bar because we've talked about re-doing these slides for the past 5 years! You managed to capture all the things we talked about: modern, cutting edge, executive look and feel, Ivy League. Please accept our deepest thanks. These slides are truly a dream come true!! You did beautiful work (and under a tight deadline). We are so grateful.

Press and publications.

NEWS IN THE U.S.

TC's immersive VR learning experience for NYC public schools

TC Newsroom · Featured Dec 2022

TC Launches Immersive VR Learning Experience for NY Public Schools and Beyond

A new collaboration between TC faculty, students, and the Digital Futures Institute leverages the potential of immersive technology to spark new dreams for public school students in New York.

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