321 Engineering II
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-6317
FAX: 951-827-2425

Gerardo Beni
Professor, Electrical Engineering

Degrees

Laurea Physics 1970
Universita'di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Ph.D. Physics 1974
UC 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 Area

1. Swarm Intelligence, Distributed Robotic Systems
2. Multimedia (3D animation) for education technology applications.
3. Financial Engineering

Recent Results Order by disordered action in swarms. Proof that swarms, converge to fixed points basically whenever synchronous or sequential convergence occurs; moreover, because of partial random synchronicity, swarms converge in cases when synchronous and/or sequential updating does not. 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. Cellular Automata methods for financial market models

Publications

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Swarm
Intelligence


G. Beni “Swarm Intelligence” , in Encyclopaedia of Complexity and Applied System Science – Springer-Verlag (2007)

1. 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.


2. 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.


Multimedia/ Computer Animation

1. N. Adamo-Villani, G. Beni, ''A new method of hand gesture configuration and animation,'' Journal of Information, 7, 3, 367-386, 2004.


2. N. Adamo-Villani, G. Beni, ''An interactive computer animation method for learning instrument grasp,'' Journal of Information, 8, 1, 89-108, 2004.


3. G. Beni, N. Adamo-Villani, ''Semantic Intensity: a measure of visual relevance,'' Journal of Information, 9, 3, 437-468, 2005

4. 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.

Financial Engineering

1.      Y. Gao and G. Beni, "Fluctuations in Option Pricing Using Cellular Automata Based Market Models", Proceedings of SPIE, Noise and Fluctuations in Econophysics and Finance, Vol 5848, pp.241-251, May 2005.

2.      Y.Gao and G.Beni, “Model of Heterogeneous market with intrinsic randomness”, Information Science 2007, pp 522-528


For additional information, please see Professor Beni's faculty webpage.

http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~beni
 

Former Institution

UC 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).

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7/14/2008



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