Chaipi Wijnbergen
Date of birth: Feb. 2nd, 1965
Marital status: Married + 2
Last revised: 23/08/01
Memberships: IEEE senior member
Publications:
- "In-vivo Optical Imaging of Cortical Architecture and Dynamics", A.Grinvald,
D. Shoham, A. Shmuel, D. Glaser, I. Vanzeta, E. Shtoyerman, H. Slovin, C. Wijnbergen, R.
Hildesheim, and A. Arieli. Published in Modern Tenchniques
in Neuroscience Research. Springer 1999, pp
893-969.
- "Imaging Cortical
Dynamics at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution with Novel Blue Voltage-Sensitive Dyes",
Doron Shoham, Daniel E. Glaser, Amos Arieli, Tal Kenet, Chaipi Wijnbergen, Yuval Toledo, Rina
Hildesheim and Amiram Grinvald. Neuron,
Vol 24, pp 791-802, December, 1999. (as a PDF file).
Education
- May-July 2000, 32 hours course in "Using Adobe Photoshop 5.5"
at Mentor.
- January 2000, 24 hours course in "Windows NT Internals" at Hi-Tech college
- December 1998, 40 hours course in "Windows NT Device Drivers" at
Hi-Tech college
- November 1998, "Distributed Applications
design and development using Visual Studio 6.0", Microsoft Approved Course #
1298, At Sivan Computers
.
- August. 1998, 40 hours course in "Programming in Windows NT Environment
in C" at Hi-Tech college .
- February 1998, 85 hours course of Visual C++ 5.0/MFC at Sivan Computers
.
- December 1997, 5 days course of Java programming at Intebit Computers
.
- November 1997, 95 hours course of C++ programming at Sivan Computers
.
- September 1997, 60 hours course of Accelerated MS Windows
NT 4.0 at Sivan Computer
.
- September 1997, 48 hours course of Supporting MS Windows 95 at Sivan Computers
.
- July 1996, 40 hours course of Windows 95 - Internals at Winsite.
- May 1996, 100 hours Communication
course (The OSI
Model, Ethernet
,Token-Ring, FDDI
, TCP/IP, IPv6 ,
Repeaters/HUBS/Bridges/Routers & ISDN
) at LOGTEL Computer Communication Ltd.
- 1990-1994 M.Sc. studies at the Electrical
Engineering department of The Israeli Institute of
Technology
(Technion). Specializing in biological signal processing. During the course of my
studies I took courses related to biological signals and artificial neural networks. My
masters thesis described an artificial neural network that simulated a part of the primary
visual cortex of monkey. A simulation model was built that enabled me to study dynamic
processes that may be related to those operating in the human brain.
- 1986-1990, B.Sc. studies at the Electrical
Engineering department of the Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev
(graduated
with honor). Specialized in computers, signal processing and control.
- Jul. 1995, 40 hours course in Windows NT programming in C at Hi-Tech college .
- Apr. 1995, 40 hours course in Windows NT workstation administration
at Hi-Tech college .
- Feb. 1994, 40 hours course in RS/6000 Load Leveler & Parallel Environment at CCC
Computing Systems.
- Nov. 1993, 40 hours course in RS/6000 AIX Operating System
Management at CCC Computing Systems.
- Nov. 1993, 40 hours course in RS/6000 AIX Operating System usage at
CCC Computing System.
- Nov. 1993, 40, hours course in 68000/68020 architecture
and assembler at
.
- Mar. 1991, 50 hours photography course at
.
- 1985, 30 hours course in programming in Prolog at the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Youth activities department.
- 1981-1983, High school studies, specializing in electronics and
electricity.
- 1985, 30 hours course in programming in LISP at the Tel-Aviv University
- Education school.
- Mar. 1983, Participated in the Invention competition at the Weizmann Institute of Science - Youth activities dept. Submitted a
project that converted computers to work in Hebrew (Hardware and Software solution).
- Aug. 1981, 200 hours course in New-York
University
- Summer High School Program in Computer
Science. Studied: Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, Snobol, Basic.
- Jul. 1980, 40 hours course in programming in Pascal at the Tel-Aviv University
- Education school.
- 1980, Two semester studies of programming Fortran and Electronics at the
Youth activities department of the Tel-Aviv University
.
- 1979, Two semesters of electronics studies at the youth activities
department of the Tel-Aviv University
.
Programming Languages
Visual C++/MFC, C/C++, Java, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Assembler (Intel 80x86, Motorola 680xx or 68000,
Motorola 6502 or 6502,
Micro chip 16Cxx and Zilog Z8000 &
Z80).
Operating Systems
MS-DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT and UNIX.
Work Experience
- 1991-Today, I work for the Weizmann
Institute of Science
at the Brain
Research Center and in the Optical Imaging Laboratory.
In this lab I am responsible for the development of experiments setups. Setups that
involve computes, hardware, software, and analog designs. I have been involved in
designing data acquisition systems (mainly video data).
Sample list of projects:
Acquisition of CCD data - A setup that is based on a CCD camera by FUJI Photo Film
HR
Deltaron 1700 that takes up to 1700 frames per second and is used to to collect images
that are generated by voltage sensitive dyes. In this design, I had to do GPIB
communication under WinNT, do modification to the camera firmware (this was done in Z80
assembler), and to developed a Heart Beat respiration controller which was based on a Microchip PIC 16C57 and implemented RS232 to
communicate with the PC.
Acquisition of Video Data - A setup that had to collect data taken from live brain tissue
of a cat or a monkey. Such optical signals are less the one gray level and in order to see
those signal I have designed a differential video amplifier. This design had Analog and
Digital circuits. The digital part was made out of two Altera
EP610 EPLDs, one to
control video timing and the other to interface the lab equipment to the printer port of
the PC. The computer system was based on an EISA IBM-PC that collected video frames into
64MB of RAM and 10GB disk. I had to interface to the Image IM-640 frame grabber (made by
) and to write software in C to
analyze data. The software is written using MetaWare
High C compiler running under PharLap 386 Dos
Extender. I have finished this project by helping to design a printed circuit board
and pass it on to a manufacturing company.
Another project that I was involved in, was a system that collected EEG signals using DAS-1602 A/D boards (made by
). In this project I have
defined the setup, I wrote software that used the A/D board and defined noise cancellation
algorithms.
Designed an Altera EP610 EPLD based Dye-Screening
Setup controller. Designed a PIC
16C54 RISC micro controller (or 16C54)
based watch dog timers for long periods of time out. The microcontroller is made by Microchip Inc.
For my every days work, I've used communication utilities such as EMAIL, FTP, TELNET,
NETSCAPE & MOSAIC.
- 1985-1991, I worked for
,
a company that used to be a subsidiary company of
as a computer engineer and was involved in developing an airborne
computer for a remotely piloted vehicle. At this job I was involved in the development of
the computer that controlled the flight and another computer that simulated the flight
computer flight environment and enabled the development of flight algorithms at the
laboratory as a controlled environment. For this job I used the HP 64000
microprocessors development system with 8086
ICE and microprocessors development system made by Intel
with 80386
ICE and Multibus I
cards for PPI
, D/A, A/D, UART
, TIMERS
and CPU's. I had to write
software in C and assembler 80x86 . I developed
communication protocols to communicate between a PC and the CPU on the Multibus using
serial communication and DUAL port memory bus to
bus board made by Bit3 . For debugging serial
communication protocol software I used tools like a Data Scope.
- 1984-1985, Army service in a Israeli Air Force unit that developed and
maintained airborne computers. I wrote software in Zilog
Assembler for Z8000 and
handled devices like timers, Z80
dual async/sync serial I/O, A/Ds interrupts and displays. I used debugging tools such
as Data Scope.
- 1984, I converted a BBS software that was written in Motorola assembler 6502 to Hebrew.
- 1983-1984, I worked for Elevators Engineer S. Lustig as a software /
hardware engineer in developing a Data Logging device for elevators. This device was build
around the Apple// computer
with hardware that I designed and software that I wrote in assembler of Motorola 6502
. The hardware part was a digital I/O interface of over 200 bits. A few years later I
redesigned this system to work with an IBM-PC and software in C. (If you are still using
the Apple // Computer, check here how
to get rid of it).
- 1982-1983, I helped to start the first COMPUTERLAND branch in Israel. my
job was to convert all computers and printers to work in Hebrew using EPROMS as character
generators and software to support it.
- 1982-1983,Worked for Eng. S. Lusting in Writing engineering programs on
the Apple// in Basic.
- 1982, Developed data base management programs in Basic on the Apple// and the Commodore computers.