Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

Representative Experience

• Intel, Freescale and Altera processors
• Wireless modulation techniques
• Networking protocols and on-board inter-device interconnect protocols
• Personal computer BIOS firmware
• Advanced Medical Imaging modalities
• Photometric Blood analyzers

Background and Credentials

Prior to joining Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, Rajendra (Raj) A. Chiplunkar was a senior staff engineer for 10 years at Motorola Inc.   His work experience within the Wireless Internet Broadband Group for five years, focused on the design and development of firmware and networking protocols for wireless high speed Internet connectivity devices, utilizing a variety of modulation schemes.  Prior to that, he worked within Motorola’s Radio Systems engineering group, primarily designing base station firmware. 

At American Megatrends Inc., in addition to developing PC BIOS firmware, Mr. Chiplunkar participated with engineers from Intel, Dell Computers, Hewlett Packard and Phoenix Technologies to establish an industry-wide “Wired for Management” specification, with an eye towards reducing the “Total Cost of Ownership” of enterprise PCs.  The specification survives today as a sub-set of the “Intelligent Platform Management Interface” and serves to allow network managers to remotely deploy, manage and debug networked computers.

Mr. Chiplunkar aided in research on human lung function at the Division of Physiologic Imaging, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics.  He developed software to allow automatic extraction of the human airway tree from a set of high resolution CT images.  Additionally, Mr. Chiplunkar was instrumental in the design and development of an interactive “Lung Volume Controller” which interfaced with a Imatron (GE) Ultrafast High Resolution CT machine.  Mr. Chiplunkar acquired graduate level coursework in Human Physiology, Image Processing Techniques and Medical Imaging modalities including MRI, PET and Ultrasound.  Mr. Chiplunkar has also designed and developed software for a low cost blood analyzer for a medical device company based in Mumbai (Bombay), India.

Mr. Chiplunkar is a student at The John Marshall Law School, where he was the recipient of the CALI award for the highest absolute score in Property and Criminal Law, and of the Dean’s and Herzog scholarships.  He received his B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology, Shivaji University, India. 

Mr. Chiplunkar is fluent in Hindi, Marathi and Gujrathi.
 
Publications and Speeches

• Joseph M. Reinhardt, Rajendra A. Chiplunkar, and Eric A. Hoffman. “Automatic identification of the primary airway tree.” In Amer. J. Respitory and Critical Care Medicine, volume 155, page A863, April 1997.
• Rejendra A. Chiplunkar, Joseph M. Reinhardt, and Eric A. Hoffman. “Segmentation and quantification of the primary human airway tree from 3-D X-ray CT.” In Proc SPIE Conf. Medical Imaging, volume 3033, pages 403-414, Newport Beach, CA, 23-28 Feb. 1997.
• Tran, B.Q., J.K. Tajik, R.A. Chiplunkar, and E.A. Hoffman, “Lung Volume Control for Quantitative X-Ray CT.” Annals of Biomedical Eng., Vol. 24, Sup.1, Sept/Oct, 1996, S66.
• Casale TB, Chiplunkar R, Reed S, Collins M and Hoffman EA. “Methacholine-Induced Airway Construction in Vivo Mimics in Vitro Cholinergic Innervation.” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1996; 153(4):A877.