About Me

I'm a Computer Engineering student at the University of Michigan (4.0 GPA, Martin & Ellen Chavez Scholarship Winner, Dean's List) passionate about building systems at the intersection of hardware, software, and autonomy. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and raised in Maryland, I carry a perspective shaped by two cultures and a drive to create meaningful impact through engineering.

I founded U-M Vertical Flight — a multidisciplinary team designing and building eVTOL aircraft for Vertical Flight Society competitions. As Electrical Lead, I own power distribution, flight controller integration, and sensor suites including LiDAR and thermal imaging for autonomous operations. We secured $20k+ in funding in our first semester.

At U-M's Magnetometer Laboratory, I'm co-authoring a research publication on the first ML model to classify geomagnetic storm events without upstream solar wind data — removing a 48-hour classification latency that limits real-time space weather forecasting. I'm also collaborating with Curtis Ling (MaxLinear founder & CTO) on GoFundMI.org, a non-profit connecting student researchers to funding.

I believe in building solutions that are technically rigorous and serve real needs — whether that's calibrating flight hardware, training ML models on 20 years of magnetometer data, or engineering financial analytics tools.