Get close to the evidence.
The timing path at Faraday. Noise and the physical sensor at WICS. Clinician interviews at miLEAD.
About Bao / Founder · Strategist · Builder
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 and COO, I bring those questions into the same product.
The chapter I’m building now
A path still taking shape.
How I work
Different problems.
The same discipline.
Tape-out, implantable circuits, consulting, and A Story ask different questions. Each starts with evidence and ends with a decision someone can use.
Find the constraint that matters.
Power in an implantable circuit. Timing before tape-out. Trust in a family archive. The limiting factor changes the next decision.
Make the next move usable.
An engineering handoff. A recommendation for biotech leadership. A first conversation in A Story. Give the next person something they can act on.
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.
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.
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 three 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 co-founded 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. 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.
I’m interested in ambitious products, difficult technology, and the strategy that turns one into the other.
Email BaoMore ways to connectCurrently building A Story from Michigan.