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 and the concept of 'electrowetting' , with Susan Hackwood. He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie-Beni Index for measuring the validity of fuzzy clustering.
He is the author of 'From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics' in the book Swarm Robotics
Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.
In 1970 Beni was admitted to the Laurea in physics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
In 1974, he received his PhD in theoretical physics at UCLA.
Beni has research interests in swarm intelligence, 3D animation, and financial engineering.
Before moving to UC Riverside, he worked at UC Santa Barbara and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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