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    "name": "Ian Ballinger",
    "label": "Embedded hardware and firmware engineer",
    "email": "ian@iballing.net",
    "url": "https://iballing.net",
    "summary": "I build connected, resource-constrained machines from first architecture through experimental validation, manufacturing transfer, and team-scale execution.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cambridge",
      "region": "Massachusetts",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Mechanical Engineering",
      "position": "Research Specialist",
      "summary": "Collaborative engineering leadership for interdisciplinary ingestible and implantable device programs; full-cycle architecture, integration, validation, infrastructure, mentoring, and technical communication.",
      "dateText": "2026–Present"
    },
    {
      "name": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
      "position": "Graduate Researcher · S.M. Mechanical Engineering",
      "summary": "Designed, implemented, and validated secure wireless electronics for a gastric-resident ingestible bioelectronic capsule.",
      "dateText": "2024–2026"
    },
    {
      "name": "Brigham and Women’s Hospital · Harvard Medical School",
      "position": "Research Engineer II",
      "summary": "Developed connected medical devices, long-duration experiment infrastructure, electronics fabrication capabilities, staff, and translational engineering packages.",
      "dateText": "2020–2024"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
      "studyType": "S.M., Mechanical Engineering",
      "endDate": "2026"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Vermont",
      "studyType": "B.S., Electrical Engineering",
      "endDate": "2020"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "Embedded systems",
      "keywords": [
        "C/C++",
        "Zephyr RTOS",
        "ARM Cortex-M",
        "Nordic nRF",
        "STM32",
        "drivers",
        "finite-state machines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Electronic hardware",
      "keywords": [
        "mixed-signal circuits",
        "component selection",
        "rigid/flex PCBs",
        "power systems",
        "RF matching",
        "laboratory validation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Connected devices",
      "keywords": [
        "BLE",
        "Wi-Fi",
        "I²C",
        "SPI",
        "UART",
        "mobile/device protocols",
        "cloud data systems"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Productization",
      "keywords": [
        "system architecture",
        "DFM",
        "test methods",
        "reliability",
        "design transfer",
        "V&V",
        "preclinical deployment"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "An automated all-in-one system for carbohydrate tracking, glucose monitoring, and insulin delivery",
      "publisher": "Journal of Controlled Release",
      "releaseDate": "2022",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2022.01.001",
      "summary": "Designed and fabricated integrated sensing and delivery hardware."
    },
    {
      "name": "Implantable system for chronotherapy",
      "publisher": "Science Advances",
      "releaseDate": "2021",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj4624",
      "summary": "Designed and fabricated a multi-device implant and wearable system for monitoring and closed-loop drug delivery."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "ingestible-platform",
      "eyebrow": "Embedded bioelectronics · thesis",
      "title": "Commandable ingestible bioelectronic platform",
      "summary": "Two design–build–test generations combining capsule-scale electronics, Zephyr firmware, BLE, mobile control, command authentication, power delivery, and electrochemical payload release.",
      "role": "System architecture, electronics, embedded firmware, wireless integration, power characterization, validation, and failure analysis.",
      "outcomes": [
        "Commanded in-vivo release of a viable bacterial payload",
        "At least six days of gastric operation with the payload barrier intact",
        "Approximately −102 dBm staged in-body receiver sensitivity",
        "Months-long always-available BLE telemetry in device studies"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Read the 2026 MIT thesis",
          "/Ballinger_iballing_SMME_MechE_2026_thesis.pdf"
        ],
        [
          "Thesis code and reproducibility materials",
          "https://github.com/IanBallinger/thesis_dist"
        ]
      ],
      "boundary": "Residence, authentication, and release were established in distinct experimental traces; therapeutic efficacy was not evaluated. This self-hosted copy is the author’s thesis document pending MIT DSpace publication."
    },
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      "id": "remote-experiments",
      "eyebrow": "Infrastructure · translational research",
      "title": "Long-duration connected experiment infrastructure",
      "summary": "An end-to-end system for remote monitoring and control of custom devices in long-duration large-animal studies.",
      "role": "BLE hardware, body-area networking, C#/.NET services, cloud databases, analysis interfaces, deployment, and collaborator support.",
      "outcomes": [
        "Supported experiments with operating windows up to 100 days",
        "Deployed to geographically distributed collaborators",
        "Enabled remote sponsor demonstrations and experiment diagnosis"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "boundary": "Source and study records are not public because they include collaborator and sponsor-controlled material."
    },
    {
      "id": "shared-platform",
      "eyebrow": "Technical leadership · platform engineering",
      "title": "Reusable embedded-device development platform",
      "summary": "Shared firmware, protocol, mobile, build, and deployment infrastructure that turned isolated prototypes into systems other engineers could extend.",
      "role": "Originated the working architecture, defined interfaces, built reference implementations, integrated contributor branches, and coordinated system behavior.",
      "outcomes": [
        "Shared C++ behavior across mobile and embedded targets",
        "Reproducible Zephyr and nRF build environments",
        "Containerized remote compilation and automated flashing",
        "Parallel contribution across firmware, sensing, and device-control work"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "boundary": "Most program repositories remain private; the leadership claim is based on repository history and delivered integration work rather than public commit volume."
    }
  ],
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