Gerardo Beni
{{Short description|American academic}}
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{{Cite web|date=January 1993|title=Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226606338}}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 the context of cellular robotics and the concept of electrowetting,Beni, G. and Hackwood, S., Electrowetting Displays, Applied Physics Letter, 38,4, pp.207–209, 1982 with Susan Hackwood. He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie–Beni indexXie, 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) for measuring the validity of fuzzy 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, [https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-540-30552-1_1 Springer].
Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.
Education
In 1970 Beni was admitted to the Laurea in physics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy.{{Cite web |url=http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/beni.html |title=Electrical Engineering: Gerardo Beni |access-date=2007-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105113705/http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/beni.html |archive-date=2015-01-05 |url-status=dead }}
In 1974, he received his PhD in theoretical physics at UCLA.
Academic career
Beni has research interests in swarm intelligence, 3D animation, and financial engineering.[http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~beni/ Gerardo Beni]
Before moving to UC Riverside, he worked at UC Santa Barbara and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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.
In 1982, Beni was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1999, he became a Fellow of the AAAS.
Patents
Beni has been issued, either alone or in conjunction with other inventors, several patents from the USPTO:[https://archive.today/20121214081414/http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Gerardo&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=Beni&FIELD2=INNM&d=PTXT Patent Database Search Results: IN/Gerardo AND IN/Beni in US Patent Collection]
- [https://archive.today/20121214104553/http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Gerardo.INNM.&s2=Beni.INNM.&OS=IN/Gerardo+AND+IN/Beni&RS=IN/Gerardo+AND+IN/Beni Method and apparatus for object positioning] while at UC Santa Barbara.
- [https://archive.today/20121214103452/http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Gerardo.INNM.&s2=Beni.INNM.&OS=IN/Gerardo+AND+IN/Beni&RS=IN/Gerardo+AND+IN/Ben Object analysis of multi-valued images] while at UCSB, together with J Wang.
References
External links
- [http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~beni/ Beni's homepage]
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