Gerardo Beni (born Florence, Italy 21 February 1946) is a professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside who, with Jing Wang, is known as the originator of the term swarm intelligence[1][2] in the context of cellular robotics and the concept of electrowetting,[3] with Susan Hackwood. He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie–Beni index[4] for measuring the validity of fuzzy clustering.
He is the author of "From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics" in the book Swarm Robotics[5]
Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.
Education
editIn 1970 Beni was admitted to the Laurea in physics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy.[6]
In 1974, he received his PhD in theoretical physics at UCLA.[6]
Academic career
editBeni has research interests in swarm intelligence, 3D animation, and financial engineering.[7]
Before moving to UC Riverside, he worked at UC Santa Barbara and AT&T Bell Laboratories.[6]
He helped found the Journal of Robotic Systems, and between 1982 and 2005 he was also its director. The journal won the Journal of the Year Award in 1984.[6]
In 1982, Beni was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1999, he became a Fellow of the AAAS.[6]
Patents
editBeni has been issued, either alone or in conjunction with other inventors, several patents from the USPTO:[8]
- Method and apparatus for object positioning[permanent dead link] while at UC Santa Barbara.
- Object analysis of multi-valued images[permanent dead link] while at UCSB, together with J Wang.
References
edit- ^ "Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems". January 1993.
- ^ Beni, G., Wang, J. Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems, Proceed. NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, Tuscany, Italy, June 26–30 (1989)
- ^ Beni, G. and Hackwood, S., Electrowetting Displays, Applied Physics Letter, 38,4, pp.207–209, 1982
- ^ Xie, X.L., and Beni,G. A Validity Measure for Fuzzy Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, pp. 841–847, (1991)
- ^ ISBN 978-3-540-24296-3, DOI 10.1007/b105069, Springer.
- ^ a b c d e "Electrical Engineering: Gerardo Beni". Archived from the original on 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
- ^ Gerardo Beni
- ^ Patent Database Search Results: IN/Gerardo AND IN/Beni in US Patent Collection[permanent dead link]