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).
Last Updated
7/14/2008
