Start with the material.
Peterson Lab made research tangible: prepare a sample, take a measurement, change a condition, look again. Circuit projects added another kind of discipline: choosing between competing constraints.
About GB / Co-founder, COO & CTO, A Story
I started in engineering.
I kept looking around it.
I like the space where a difficult idea becomes something people can actually use.
My foundation is in materials, circuits, and real silicon. Consulting widened the frame to markets and adoption. Now, as A Story’s Co-founder, COO and CTO, I bring those questions into the same product.
The chapter I’m building now
A path still taking shape.
The path here
One question
led to another.
I arrived from Vietnam in 2019. Michigan became the place where materials led to circuits, engineering led to strategy, and unfamiliar faces became a community.
Follow the problem outward.
Faraday brought the pressure of delivery. Graduate research brought demanding biomedical systems. Alongside that work, miLEAD asked how a promising technology could find a market.
The circuit has to work.
So does everything around it.
Research / WICS · 2024–25
Small circuits.
A much larger purpose.
Wireless Integrated Circuits and Systems Group
University of Michigan
Prof. David Wentzloff
The work grew inside a community of researchers, mentors, and collaborators.
I joined WICS in July 2024 for graduate research on ultra-low-power circuits for a totally implantable auditory prosthesis.
The work ran through November 2025: subthreshold sensor interfaces, transimpedance amplifiers, active-RC filters, noise and PVT analysis, and MEMS/ASIC integration in TSMC 65nm CMOS.
Sensor interfaces65nm CMOSUltra-low power
Inside the research400+
Understanding it.
Making it understandable.
As a Graduate Student Instructor, I lectured, held office hours, and developed circuit and amplifier laboratory materials supporting more than 400 students.
Being correct was a starting point. An explanation also had to connect with the person hearing it.
Consulting / miLEAD · 2024–26
Give the technology
a direction.
Primary research, market analysis, and commercialization recommendations for four pre-clinical biotechnology startups brought customers, adoption, and execution into the same decision.
The consulting chapterMichigan & community / VISA
A better start
for the next arrival.
I was on the founding team of the Vietnamese International Student Association at Michigan. A new place is easier to enter when people are ready to welcome you.
A place becomes people.
Cultural nights, familiar faces, friendships that outlast the event. These years mean more to me than a collection of projects.
I wanted the next students from Vietnam to find a community already waiting.
Outside work
A little distance
helps.
Sports taught me competition. Poker taught me incomplete information. Time outside reminds me that not every good day needs to produce something.
A different kind of focus.
The Wasatch Mountains, near Salt Lake City.
Fresh air, a game, good company.
A life beyond the formal record.
Education / University of Michigan
A foundation
to carry forward.
APRIL 2026
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
Integrated Circuits & VLSI
Graduate Certificate, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
B.S.E. Materials Science & Engineering
Electrical Engineering minor
Summa Cum Laude
THE PEOPLE IN THE CHAPTERThe work happened
The work happened
among people.
Researchers, mentors, classmates, and collaborators shaped how I approach a problem. Completing graduate engineering work was also a moment to recognize that community.
Turn to the Michigan chapter09The next conversation
Let’s talk.
About your go-to-market.
If you are building something difficult, whether a launch, a market or a product a family will trust, I’d like to hear about it.
Email BaoMore ways to connectCurrently building A Story from Michigan.