- Gerardo Beni
Gerardo Beni is a
professor ofelectrical engineering atUniversity of California, Riverside who, with Jing Wang, is known as the originator of the term " 'swarm intelligence ' " [ 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)] in thecontext ofcellular robotics and the concept of " 'electrowetting ' " [ Beni,G. and Hackwood,S.,Electrowetting Displays,Applied Physics Letter, 38,4,pp.207-209,1982 ] , withSusan Hackwood . He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie-Beni Index [ Xie, X.L., and Beni,G. A Validity Measure for Fuzzy Clustering, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, pp. 841-847, (1991)] for measuring the validity offuzzy clustering .He is the author of " 'From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics' " in the book "Swarm Robotics" [
ISBN 978-3-540-24296-3,DOI 10.1007/b105069, [http://www.springerlink.com/content/xn02ymel1b22rjp8/ Springer] .]Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.
Education
In 1970 Beni was admitted to the
Laurea inPhysics at theUniversity of Florence ,Florence ,Italy [http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/beni.html Electrical Engineering: Gerardo Beni ] ] .In 1974, he was received his
PhD inTheoretical Physics at UCLA.Academic career
Beni has
research interest s in swarm intelligence,3D animation , andfinancial engineering [http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~beni/ Gerardo Beni ] ] .Before moving to
UC Riverside , he worked atUC Santa Barbara andAT&T Bell Laboratories .He helped found the
Journal of Robotic Systems , and between 1982 and 2005 he was also its director. The journal won theJournal of the Year Award in 1984.In 1982, Beni was made a
Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society . In 1999 he became a Fellow of the AAAS.Patents
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