BAO VO
BAO VO
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Bao Vo · Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Everything on the record.

The projects, studies, teams, and early experiments behind the edited selection. Browse a discipline, follow a year, or look closer at the source.

19 records / Select a row to open its record

012026—A StoryProduct / Venture

Active development & pilots

A family archive, built through conversation.

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An open photo album on a wooden table.
Future keepsake · Editorial concept
022024–26Healthcare commercializationConsulting

Consulting · Public summary

Turning life-science research into a considered market direction.

Client work is summarized publicly; confidential deliverables are not shown.

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Bao Vo with the miLEAD group over dinner.
With the miLEAD community
032026Aurora: a route into the U.S.Case competition

Competition · Semifinalist

Market choice, supply constraints, and a staged entry recommendation.

SECC 2026 semifinalist. Selected excerpts present the team’s competition recommendation.

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Cover of the Aurora competition recommendation.
Aurora · SECC competition submission, 2026
042026NTT accelerator for post-quantum cryptographyEngineering

Course project · Résumé-documented

A reconfigurable radix-2 NTT accelerator for polynomial sizes 256 and 1024: parallel butterfly processing, banked SRAM, DMA/FIFO integration, synthesis and physical implementation.

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NTT accelerator for post-quantum cryptography

2026 / Engineering
052025–26Teaching introductory electronic circuitsTeaching

Graduate Student Instructor

Lectures, office hours, and circuit and amplifier laboratory material for EECS 215 at Michigan, supporting instruction for more than 400 students.

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PROJECT RECORD

Teaching introductory electronic circuits

2025–26 / Teaching
062024–25Circuits for an implantable deviceResearch

Research · Circuit simulation

Low-power circuit research with a much larger human purpose.

Circuit development and simulation for a research system.

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Bao Vo and lab colleagues on a trip to Mackinac Island.
With the lab on Mackinac Island
072025ARTiculateProduct

Product concept · Track winner

Exploring drawing as another way to express a feeling.

Competition product concept · Track Winner and Audience Choice.

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The ARTiculate team at the Ross +Tech Innovation Jam.
ARTiculate · The team, 2025
082025CagriSema launch strategyHealthcare case

Historical competition · Semifinalist

Connecting positioning with access, providers, and patient support.

MHCC 2025 semifinalist. The preserved deck is the quarterfinal submission.

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Title slide of the MHCC quarterfinal submission.
CagriSema · Quarter Finals Submission, 2025
092024From design to tape-outEngineering

Industry engineering

Test, timing, and the discipline of getting silicon out the door.

The 1.5-month figure describes a shuttle project’s tape-out timeline, not total employment. Internal customer layouts and test patterns are not displayed.

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Bao Vo with colleagues at Faraday Technology Vietnam.
With the Faraday team · Vietnam, 2024
102023Variation as identityEngineering

Course project · Simulation and layout

Comparing two approaches to a dependable hardware identity.

The report compares 95% ring-oscillator and approximately 10% SRAM yield in simulation. The presentation reports a different SRAM figure and area; these are separate source versions, not fabrication-yield claims.

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Bao Vo and teammates standing in front of a presentation on PUF integration.
PUF project team · University of Michigan, 2023
112023A reference under constraintsEngineering

Course project · Simulation and layout

Power, stability, and the compromises behind a voltage reference.

The reported 13.14 ppm/°C result is simulated at 1.2 V over 0–70°C. The abstract and later results contain inconsistencies; the results section is the source for this statement.

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Original simulation results from the bandgap project.
Course-project results · Simulation, not measurement
122023Quadrature mixer-first RF front endResearch

Research / design · Résumé-documented

Quadrature clock generation and a mixer-first receiver in TSMC 65nm, including a Windmill divider and analysis of conversion gain, power, and phase-noise behavior.

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PROJECT RECORD

Quadrature mixer-first RF front end

2023 / Research
132023Amplifier design studiesEngineering

Circuit coursework · Résumé-documented

Two studies: a three-stage bipolar-transistor amplifier for a bandpass-filter exercise, and a low-input/output-impedance multistage amplifier with dual gain modes.

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PROJECT RECORD

Amplifier design studies

2023 / Engineering
142023Dual-mode ripple-carry adderEngineering

Circuit coursework · Résumé-documented

An 8-bit ripple-carry adder explored through separate power and speed optimizations. The design exercise is documented in the engineering project history.

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Dual-mode ripple-carry adder

2023 / Engineering
152022–23Energy-harvesting sensor hardwareEngineering

Hardware project · Résumé-documented

Electrical characterization of a sensor board, C-based monitoring, and a portable application board designed around the sensor’s power profile with an integrated harvesting device.

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PROJECT RECORD

Energy-harvesting sensor hardware

2022–23 / Engineering
162022Ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor characterizationResearch

Peterson Lab / SURE · Undergraduate research

Metal-contact deposition, annealing, and electrical characterization of semiconductor thin films through cleanroom fabrication and Hall-effect/PPMS measurements.

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Bao Vo in cleanroom attire during undergraduate semiconductor research.
Peterson Lab · Semiconductor research
172019—Michigan, beyond the classroomCommunity

Personal record

From arrival in Ann Arbor to graduation, lab trips, cultural events, and the people who made Michigan home.

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Bao Vo and lab colleagues on a trip to Mackinac Island.
With the lab on Mackinac Island
18UndatedVietnamese International Student AssociationCommunity

Co-founder · Community

Co-founding a community for Vietnamese international students at Michigan. Helping new arrivals find a welcome in Ann Arbor.

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Vietnamese international students gathered at Michigan.
VISA · A community in Michigan
19UndatedOff the clockPersonal

Personal photographs

Soccer, poker, the batting cage, and time outdoors. A life in Michigan beyond the résumé.

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Bao Vo at a poker table.
Poker · Las Vegas

The material behind the index.

This index includes the early projects as well as the current ones. Public reports and selected competition excerpts are linked in their records, alongside the people and context behind the work.