Gerardo Beni
Faculty Profile
Gerardo Beni
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. Physics
University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
321 Winston Chung Hall
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Telephone: 951-827-6317
Facsimile: 951-827-2425
E-mail: beni@ee.ucr.edu
Personal Webpage
Former Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Biography
Professor Gerardo Beni -- Laurea in Physics (1970), Universita' di Firenze, Italy; Ph.D. in Physics (1974) University of California, Los Angeles. Fellow, American Physical Society (1982); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999). Who's Who in America (1988); Who's Who in the World (1992) Co-founder, co-director of the NSF Center for Robotic Systems in Microelectronics , UC Santa Barbara (1985-1990). Co-founder, director “Journal of Robotic Systems”, John Wiley, (1982-2005). Member of Editorial Board “Swarm Intelligence”.
Degrees
- Laurea Physics 1970 Universita'di Firenze, Florence, Italy
- Ph.D. Physics 1974 University of California Los Angeles
Awards
- Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 1982
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1999
- Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1983
- Journal of the Year award for Journal of Robotic Systems, 1984
- Listed in Who's Who in America, since 1988
- Who's Who in the World, since 1992
Research Areas
- Swarm Intelligence, Distributed Robotic Systems
- Financial Engineering
- Multimedia (3D animation) for education technology
Recent Results
Order by disordered action in swarms. Proof that swarms, converge to fixed points basically whenever synchronous or sequential convergence occurs; convergence in cases when synchronous and/or sequential updating does not. Cellular Automata methods for financial market models. Bubble formation and burst models. Development of translation from English into Sign Language by 3D-computer animation with application to teaching of mathematics. KUI (Keyboard User Interface) method of hand gesture and facial expression control in 3D simulations.
Selected Publications
Swarm Intelligence
- G. Beni “Swarm Intelligence” , in Encyclopaedia of Complexity and Applied System Science – Springer-Verlag (2009)
- G. Beni, ''From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics: Swarm Robotics,'' March, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Revised Selected Papers, SAB 2004 International Workshop, Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17, 2004, 3342, Springer-Verlag, E. Sahin, W.M. Spear (Eds.), 1-9, 2004.
- G. Beni, ''Order by Disordered Action in Swarms,'' March, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: SAB 2004 International Workshop, Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, 3342, Springer-Verlag, E. Sahin, W.M. Spear (Eds.), 153-171, 2004.
Financial Engineering
- Y. Gao and G. Beni, “Price fluctuations in Market Models with Heterogeneous Trading Strategies”, Proc. Financial Engineering and Applications (FEA 2007) Berkeley, CA, Sept 24-26, 2007.
- Y.Gao and G.Beni, “Model of Heterogeneous market with intrinsic randomness”, Information Science 2007, pp 522-528
Multimedia/ Computer Animation
- G. Beni, N. Adamo-Villani, ''Semantic Intensity: a measure of visual relevance,'' Journal of Information, 9, 3, 437-468, 2005
- N. Adamo-Villani and G. Beni, (2006). "Sign Language subtitling by highly comprehensible 'semantroids'. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 61-87.
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