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.