Update : January 18, 2022

• He is the only son of Saya U Ba Hla, first native Dean of Engineering.

• He received Sc.D. (Doctor of Science) from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
  At MIT, Saya helped “fresh” scholars including Saya Dr. Aung Gyi and Saya U Min Wun acclimatize with the environment and studies.
  
• He taught part-time at the Electrical Engineering Department while serving as DG (Director General) of UBARI (Union of Burma Applied Research Institute).
  
• He retired as Advisor for the Ministry of National Planning.
  
• Saya was a supporter of UCC Project and served as a member of the Board of Directors and as an External Examiner for the Computer Science graduates.
  
• Saya’s spouse (Daw Myint Thwe) is the younger sister of Saya U Tin U and Saya U Ba Than.
• They have three children :
  Tin Tn Hlaing (UCC), Tha Hlaing (EC83, UCC) and Min Thet Tun (GBNF)
  
• Htay Aung (Victor, EC80) is a nephew of Saya U Sein Hlaing.
  He is the spouse of Ma Tin Tin Hlaing.
  Htay Aung and team “programmed” a PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory) to print Burmese characters on the Cromemco System Three micro-computer.
  He worked on Burmese Word Processing for Wang Computers.
  He migrated to Australia. For the past few years, he came back to Yangon to volunteer as an interpreter for the “10-day Mediation Retreat for Foreign Yogis” at the Mahasi Sasana Yeik Tha.
• Tha Hlaing stood Joint First with Thaung Tin (KMD) in EC83.
  
• During my visit to Sydney (Australia) in 2006, Saya Zaw hosted a UCC reunion and mini-PZP (Pu Zaw Pwe) for Saya Freddie and Saya Chit.