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Computer Engineering · Indiana University Bloomington

Jaiden
Medina

Building human-centered engineering solutions at the intersection of embedded systems, edge AI, data engineering, and hardware reliability — with a focus on healthcare technology, intelligent systems, and real-world impact.

Embedded Systems Edge AI / ML Data Engineering FPGA / SystemVerilog Microelectronics Medical Devices Healthcare Technology Human-Centered Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems

Engineer.
Leader.
Builder.

Jaiden Medina is a Computer Engineering student at Indiana University Bloomington's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, expected to graduate in 2027. He has accepted an Accelerated 4+1 M.S. offer in Intelligent Systems Engineering with a Computer Engineering specialization, beginning Fall 2026.

His technical work spans embedded systems, edge AI, digital logic design, data engineering, hardware reliability, robotics, and manufacturing optimization — each grounded in a core belief that engineering should create real, human-centered impact.

His long-term interest is in healthcare, medical device technology, and human-centered systems — building engineering solutions that improve daily life through reliable hardware, intelligent software, and data-driven design.

He pairs that technical foundation with deep organizational leadership through SHPE, Tau Epsilon Kappa, and the Luddy School Student Ambassador program — building community, mentoring peers, and opening doors for underrepresented students in STEM.

Academic Path
Computer Engineering + Accelerated M.S.
B.S. in Computer Engineering at Indiana University with an Accelerated M.S. path in Intelligent Systems Engineering beginning Fall 2026.
Industry Experience
Manufacturing + IT Internships
Applied engineering, analytics, and systems thinking through internships at Lippert and 1st Source Bank across process improvement, data, and enterprise tools.
Technical Portfolio
Hardware, Data, and Intelligent Systems
Built projects across robotics, embedded ML, FPGA design, microelectronics reliability, cloud ML services, and business intelligence dashboards.
Community Leadership
SHPE, TEK, and Luddy
Leads through student organizations and mentorship roles focused on access, professional development, technical growth, and belonging in STEM.
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Healthcare & Human-Centered Engineering
Interested in medical devices, healthcare technology, and intelligent systems that improve quality of life through embedded systems, data, and human-centered design.
Embedded Systems & Edge AI
Works across robotics, Raspberry Pi, STM32, FPGA design, TensorFlow Lite, real-time control, and hardware-software integration.
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Data Engineering & Business Intelligence
Builds dashboards, analysis tools, and engineering workflows using SQL, Power BI, Python, Excel, and DAX to support operational decision-making.
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Manufacturing Optimization
Applied LEAN engineering, automation, and design tools to support production efficiency, safety, and engineering standardization in industry.
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Beyond Engineering
Student-athlete with the Indiana University Men’s Rugby Team, balancing engineering, leadership, and competitive athletics while bringing teamwork, discipline, and resilience into project work.
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Luddy School Feature
Featured at the beginning of a Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering advertisement, opening the video with: “I'm immensely confident that I am going to be an amazing engineer.”

Academic Foundation

Relevant Coursework
Embedded Systems Digital Design with FPGAs Advanced Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems Computer Systems Engineering Engineering Computing Architectures Software Systems Engineering Intelligent Systems I Intelligent Systems II Introduction to Circuits Systems, Signals, and Control Modeling and Simulation Microelectronics Radiation Effects & Reliability Probability & Statistics
Competitive scholarship supporting outstanding undergraduate students pursuing Intelligent Systems Engineering at Luddy.
Selected based on academic achievement and promise in the field, recognizing strong potential to excel in ISE and make meaningful contributions through engineering studies.
Selective scholarship and support program at Indiana University empowering first-generation, underrepresented, and high-achieving students through academic, financial, and professional development resources.
Provides mentorship, leadership development, community engagement opportunities, and access to research and career-building experiences.
As a GROUPS Scholar, I engage in initiatives that promote academic excellence, campus involvement, service, and long-term leadership impact within the IU community and beyond.

Professional Work

Product & Process Development Engineering Intern
Summer 2026 Internship
  • Returning to Lippert for a second summer internship in 2026, building on prior experience in manufacturing engineering, process improvement, technical problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Contributing in a new role focused on applying engineering, data, and systems-level thinking to support product and process development initiatives.
  • Continuing professional growth within an organization recognized for manufacturing innovation, responsibility, and large-scale product development.
Returning Intern Product Development Process Development Engineering Manufacturing Systems Thinking
Information Technology Intern
Summer 2025 Internship
  • Built Power BI dashboards and worked with SQL-based core queries to surface actionable insights across customer account data.
  • Analyzed account lifecycle and closure trends spanning acquisition, onboarding, retention, officer relationships, and transaction behavior.
  • Gained hands-on exposure to IBM Cognos and Hyperion EPM during enterprise system transitions and supported application rewrites.
  • Communicated data insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, bridging the gap between analytics and business decisions.
Power BI SQL DAX IBM Cognos Hyperion EPM Data Analytics Business Intelligence
LEAN / Manufacturing Engineering Intern
Summer 2024 Internship
  • Contributed to R&D and LEAN engineering for the UD Chassis Project — a first-of-its-kind chassis system for the RV industry — through design, fabrication, installation, and testing.
  • Helped improve production efficiency by approximately 34% while supporting safety and process improvements across the production line.
  • Built a Python, Excel, AutoCAD, and DraftSight-based engineering calculator to standardize calculations for modified rigs, integrating engineering data with production materials.
  • Supported product-launch-style implementation of a new Upper Deck chassis system from prototype through deployment.
Python Excel AutoCAD DraftSight LEAN Engineering R&D Manufacturing

Community & Organizations

SHPE Indiana University Bloomington logo
Founder & President
Founded and led SHPE Indiana University Bloomington beginning in 2024, building a chapter centered on mentorship, professional development, representation, and belonging for underrepresented students in STEM.

Under his leadership, SHPE IUB grew through cross-campus collaborations, signature events, industry engagement, and regional involvement, including participation in the SHPE Region 6 Spring Forward Conference. The chapter has engaged 500+ students, collaborated with 20+ organizations, and earned the Collaboration Powerhouse Award at the IUSG Bloom Together Gala.
500+
students engaged
20+
org partners
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collab award
Tau Epsilon Kappa Beta Chapter logo
VP of Technical Development · Founding Class
Founding member of the Beta Chapter of Tau Epsilon Kappa at Indiana University, a co-ed professional technical fraternity originally founded at the University of Michigan in 2022. Helped establish the chapter’s structure, mission, and recruitment strategy for its founding Alpha Class.

As VP of Technical Development, leads workshops, coding sessions, project collaborations, and skill-building initiatives that strengthen members’ engineering and technical competencies while promoting professional development, academic excellence, and community building.
Luddy School banner
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Serves as a Luddy Student Ambassador at Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, representing the school to prospective students, families, and visitors.

Supports the student experience by leading building tours, participating in information sessions, discussing majors and campus life, and connecting with prospective students through one-on-one conversations by email or Zoom.
Luddy ISE Peer Mentors banner
Indiana University · ISE Program
Serves as an upperclassman mentor in the Intelligent Systems Engineering Peer Mentor Program at the Indiana University Luddy School. Supports incoming freshmen and sophomores by helping them navigate their engineering degrees, answer coursework questions, and transition into college life.

Guides student cohorts through academic support, community events, engineering-focused discussions, and peer networking to help make a large university feel smaller through close-knit student support.

Technical Projects & Professional Builds

Professional · Business Intelligence
Account Closures Analysis Dashboard
Built an interactive Power BI dashboard at 1st Source Bank to investigate rapid account closures and identify patterns across account opening trends, closure rates, onboarding, officer relationships, e-student accounts, returning account behavior, and transaction activity. Queried data using SQL, modeled it with DAX, and presented insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders to support retention and operational decision-making.
Power BI SQL DAX Data Modeling Business Intelligence Stakeholder Communication
Professional · Manufacturing Engineering
UD Chassis Project — Engineering Automation & Product Innovation
Contributed to Lippert's first-of-its-kind Upper Deck Chassis project for the RV manufacturing industry through R&D, LEAN engineering, prototype design, fabrication, installation, testing, and product launch support. Programmed a custom engineering calculator using Python, Excel, AutoCAD, and DraftSight to standardize modified rig calculations, connect engineering data to production materials, reduce manual errors, improve safety, and help achieve an approximately 34% production efficiency increase.
Python Excel AutoCAD DraftSight LEAN Engineering R&D Manufacturing
Academic Project · Microelectronics
Radiation-Induced Fault Characterization in Sequential Logic
Investigated how radiation-induced charge disturbances affect the reliability of sequential CMOS logic by modeling transient current injections in a 4-bit master-slave D flip-flop shift register. Used LTspice simulations to analyze single-event transients, single-event upsets, node-level sensitivity, clock-dependent vulnerability, and master versus slave latch susceptibility.
LTspice CMOS Logic Sequential Circuits Transient Injection Fault Modeling Microelectronics Reliability Analysis
Academic Research · Physics
Gas Adsorption Studies of MCM-41 Porous Material
Conducted molecular physics research through the GROUPS Summer STEM Initiative studying helium confinement in MCM-41 mesoporous silica. Gained hands-on lab experience in material synthesis, academic literature analysis, experimental research, and technical writing while contributing to a broader IU Physics research effort on gas adsorption in low-dimensional systems.
Molecular Physics Gas Adsorption MCM-41 Research Technical Writing Lab Work
Academic Project · AI Policy
National AI Policy Framework for a Developing Global Economy
Designed a national AI policy framework for a fictional developing country, focusing on responsible AI adoption, agricultural modernization, ethics, governance, data rights, education, workforce development, and public-sector AI. Compared global AI policy models and delivered a policy brief, presentation, and press-style defense.
AI Governance Policy Design Risk Analysis Ethics Comparative Policy Strategic Communication
Robotics · Embedded
Romi Autonomous Vehicle
Autonomous and manual control system for a Pololu Romi robot using closed-loop control, state machines, embedded C/C++, Python tooling, I2C communication, PID line following, encoder feedback, and data logging.
C/C++ Python I2C PID Control Robotics Embedded Systems
FPGA · Hardware Acceleration
FPGA Digital Design Accelerators
FPGA hardware acceleration projects using SystemVerilog, AXI, DMA, and hardware/software co-design concepts. Focuses on digital design, acceleration, embedded systems, and performance improvements over software implementations.
SystemVerilog FPGA AXI DMA Digital Design Hardware Acceleration
STM32 · Embedded Systems
STM32 Embedded Systems Project
Embedded systems project using STM32 hardware, firmware, peripherals, system integration, and enclosure design. Includes hardware-aware design decisions such as standoffs, sensor access, moisture protection, and connector accessibility.
C STM32 STM32CubeIDE Firmware Fusion 360 Embedded Design
Cyber-Physical Systems · Embedded
Cyber-Physical Systems Projects
Collection of embedded cyber-physical systems projects using Raspberry Pi, Python, I2C, SPI, MQTT, GPIO/PWM control, and SystemVerilog. Includes sensor driver development for pressure, temperature, and accelerometer data acquisition, MQTT-based sensor publishing, remote LED control, and FPGA-based verification of a 2-bit saturating counter.
Python Raspberry Pi I2C SPI MQTT GPIO / PWM SystemVerilog Basys3 FPGA
Cloud · Machine Learning
ML Energy Load Microservice
Cloud-deployed machine learning microservice for predicting building energy loads using a Random Forest model and Flask API. Built around deployable inference, data analysis, and microservice architecture.
Python Flask Random Forest Machine Learning Cloud Microservice
Computer Systems · Academic
Nand2Tetris Computer Systems Project
Built core components of a computer system from first principles through the Nand2Tetris curriculum, progressing from NAND-based logic gates and arithmetic circuits to memory, computer architecture, assembly language, assembler design, virtual machine translation, and systems-level software abstraction.
Digital Logic Computer Architecture HDL Assembly Systems Programming Virtual Machines Compiler Concepts Operating Systems
Embedded ML · Edge AI
Embedded Neural Network Optimization
Optimized a Raspberry Pi-based neural network for human activity recognition, improving accuracy from approximately 0.80 to 0.95 while balancing inference speed, model size, and embedded performance constraints. Deployed the model using TensorFlow Lite for edge-device inference.
Python TensorFlow Lite Raspberry Pi Machine Learning Edge Computing
Computer Vision · Deep Learning
Bone Fracture Detection CNN
CNN-based medical imaging model for bone fracture detection. Applies computer vision, image preprocessing, deep learning, and healthcare-focused machine learning to support diagnostic image classification.
Python TensorFlow CNN Computer Vision Medical Imaging Deep Learning

Technical Toolkit

Programming & Systems Development
Python C C++ Java SQL HTML/CSS JavaScript Assembly RISC-V REST APIs Swagger/OpenAPI YAML Program Optimization
Machine Learning, Data & Cloud
TensorFlow Keras TensorFlow Lite scikit-learn Pandas NumPy Flask Power BI DAX Excel Data Modeling Business Intelligence Cloud Deployment Microservices
Embedded, Hardware & Computer Architecture
Raspberry Pi STM32 FPGA / Basys3 Pololu Romi Verilog SystemVerilog HDL Computer Architecture Digital Logic Assembler Design VM Translation Compiler Concepts Operating Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems & Hardware Interfaces
UART I2C SPI MQTT GPIO / PWM Sensor Interfacing PID Control Data Logging LTspice CMOS Logic Microelectronics Reliability Analysis
Tools & Environments
Git / GitHub Linux Jetstream2 IBM Cognos Hyperion EPM STM32CubeIDE Vivado CLion CMake VS Code Microsoft 365
Design & Engineering Tools
Fusion 360 AutoCAD DraftSight Arduino Hardware Prototyping Manufacturing Process Improvement LEAN Engineering Engineering Automation
Professional Strengths
Engineering Leadership Technical Communication Data Storytelling Data-Driven Decision Making Cross-Functional Collaboration Stakeholder Communication Project Management Community Building Peer Mentorship Human-Centered Design Healthcare Technology Interest

Awards, Honors & Features

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Collaboration Powerhouse Award
SHPE IUB · IUSG Bloom Together Gala · April 2026
Awarded to SHPE IUB in recognition of impactful cross-campus collaborations with 20+ partner organizations and 500+ students engaged.
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Certificate of Academic Excellence
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering · Indiana University
Recognized by the Luddy School for academic excellence and continued growth as a Computer Engineering student pursuing Intelligent Systems Engineering.
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Best Poster Design
GROUPS Summer STEM Initiative Program · July 2023
Recognized for poster design during the GROUPS Summer STEM Initiative research program at Indiana University.
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Featured in National and Spanish-Language STEM Coverage
USA Today · Indiana University · El Apoyo Entre Nosotros
Featured in Indiana University's USA Today story, "Indiana University trains engineers to design for human impact," highlighting human-centered engineering education and real-world impact. Also featured in the Spanish-language story map "El Apoyo Entre Nosotros: Abriendo nuevos caminos para los hispanos en STEM."
IMPACT

Engineering Access
and Belonging

Jaiden's technical work is inseparable from his community work. He founded SHPE IUB as a space where underrepresented students in STEM could find mentorship, professional connection, and a sense of belonging — not just an organization, but a real community built from scratch.

From Minorities in STEM Night to the Latin Mixer to Luddy Friendsgiving, every event has been intentional: connect students, open doors, and show that STEM is for everyone.

Through TEK Beta Chapter, founded at Indiana University in 2026, he serves as a founding class member and VP of Technical Development — leading technical programming that turns students into engineers who can build, present, and collaborate, not just complete coursework.

500+
Students Impacted
20+
Org Collaborations
2024
SHPE IUB Founded
2026
TEK Beta Founding Class
Engineering is most powerful when it serves people — not just processes or systems. Every project I build, every community I help grow, and every student I mentor is part of the same mission: make technology more accessible, more impactful, and more human.
— Jaiden "JJ" Medina
Also featured in
"El Apoyo Entre Nosotros: Abriendo nuevos caminos para los hispanos en STEM"
Spanish-language coverage · Indiana University

Let's Connect

Interested in embedded systems, data-driven engineering, medical device technology, healthcare innovation, and human-centered systems. Always open to connecting, collaborating, and building something meaningful.

jfmedina@iu.edu
IU GitHub Enterprise: github.iu.edu/jfmedina