Gerardo Beni
Gerardo Beni 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' in the context of cellular robotics[1] and the concept of electrowetting, with Susan Hackwood.
He is also the author of the book chapter 'From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics' in the book Swarm Robotics, ISBN 978-3-540-24296-3, DOI 10.1007/b105069, Springer.
Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.
Education
In 1970 Gerardo Beni was admitted to the Laurea in Physics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy[2].
In 1974, Beni was admitted to the PhD degree in Theoretical Physics at University of California, Los Angeles[2].
Academic career
Gerardo Beni has research interests in swarm intelligence, 3D animation, and financial engineering[3].
Before moving to UC Riverside, he was at
He is a co-founder of 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[2].
In 1982, Beni was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 1983 AT&T Bell Laboratories made him a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. In 1999 he became a Fellow of the AAAS[2].
Patents
Beni has been issued, either alone or in conjunction with other inventors, several patents from the USPTO[4]:
- Method and apparatus for object positioning while at UC Santa Barbara.
- Object analysis of multi-valued images while at UCSB, together with J Wang.
- ... (incomplete list)
References
- ^ 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)
- ^ a b c d e http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/beni.html
- ^ http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~beni/
- ^ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Gerardo&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=Beni&FIELD2=INNM&d=PTXT
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