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Qualifications

PhD, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brazil, 12/09/1997
Master of Engineering (Electrical), Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brazil, 14/11/1993
Bachelor of Mathematics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brazil, 10/01/1990
Teachers Certificate, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brazil, 10/01/1990

Research

Research keywords

bioinformatics
combinatorial optimization
evolutionary computation
heuristics and metaheuristics
operations research

Research expertise

Computer Science

Bioinformatics

Heuristics and metaheuristics

Evolutionary algorithms

Languages

English
Portuguese
Spanish

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
080199	Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing Not Elsewhere Classified	40
080108	Neural, Evolutionary And Fuzzy Computation	40
060499	Genetics Not Elsewhere Classified	20

Invitations

Combinatorial optimization models for finding genetic signature from gene expression 2006 Student Symposium in Bioinformatics, New Zealand (Conference Presentation - non published.)	2006
Combinatorial optimization models for finding genetic signatures from gene expression 2006 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology, Australia (Conference Presentation - non published.)	2006

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Head of Discipline of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Teaching

Teaching keywords

Java
combinatorial optimization
computer programming languages
heuristics/metaheuristics
object oriented computer languages
operations research

Teaching expertise

computer programming languages

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Publications

No publications.

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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	16
Total funding	$1,678,196

For project grants received where the lead institution is other than the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics.

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2013 (2 grants)

Solving challenging combinatorial optimization problems in bioinformatics by designing high-performance metaheuristics in GPU-CPU supercomputers$20,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Associate Professor Carlos Cotta, Dr Michael Langston, Professor Fred Glover, Mr Manuel Ujaldon Martinez
Scheme		Role
Near Miss Grant		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$20,000	2013	2013
GNo:G1300461

Educating, informing and preparing high school teachers to engage and inspire the next generation of computer scientists$14,930
Funding Body: Google

Scheme		Role
Google CS4HS		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$14,930	2013	2013
GNo:183800682

2012 (4 grants)

Memetic algorithms and adaptive memory metaheuristics for large scale combinatorial optimisation problems arising in biomarker discovery $320,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Associate Professor Carlos Cotta, Dr Michael Langston, Professor Fred Glover
Scheme		Role
Discovery Projects		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$320,000	2012	2014
GNo:G1100292

Project EVA: an environmentally responsible facility for interdisciplinary supercomputing applications$263,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Laureate Professor Jon Borwein, Conjoint Professor Keith Jones, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Professor Mark Parsons, Professor Michael Ostwald, Professor Hugh Craig, Conjoint Professor Peter Greer, Associate Professor Stephan Chalup, Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Equipment Grant		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$263,000	2012	2012
GNo:G1100627

Teaching Relief - Berretta$50,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Professor Robert Betz, Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$50,000	2012	2012
GNo:G1101203

An integrated plan for leadership development in research teaching and learning and service$8,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women		Chief Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$8,000	2012	2012
GNo:G1100996

2011 (2 grants)

Computational prediction and functional clarification of novel drug combination strategies for the treatment of brain tumours$50,000
Funding Body: Maitland Cancer Appeal Committee

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Mr Dan Johnstone, Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Doctor Luke Mathieson, Professor Manuel Graeber, Doctor Jennette Sakoff
Scheme		Role
Research Project		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$50,000	2011	2011
GNo:G1100275

The Pierre and Marie Curie GPU computing servers$27,000
Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Conjoint Professor Peter Greer, Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Doctor Carlos Riveros
Scheme		Role
Equipment Grant		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$27,000	2011	2011
GNo:G1100032

2010 (2 grants)

Identification of novel biomarkers for pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease$24,998
Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Associate Professor Liz Milward, Doctor Martin Ravetti, Mr Dan Johnstone, Dr M Guillemin, Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Project Grant		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$24,998	2010	2010
GNo:G0900149

Sir Ronald Fisher GPU computing cluster $22,000
Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Equipment Grant		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$22,000	2010	2010
GNo:G1000054

2007 (1 grants)

Healthy Airways and Obstructive Lung Disease (HAROLD)$20,000
Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

Project Team
Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith, Associate Professor Lisa Wood, Professor John Attia, Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Professor Pablo Moscato
Scheme		Role
Project Grant		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$20,000	2007	2007
GNo:G0187246

2006 (1 grants)

PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)$621,143
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott, Professor John Rostas, Professor John Forbes, Conjoint Professor Peter Hersey, Conjoint Professor Stephen Ackland, Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith, Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley, Conjoint Professor Leonie Ashman, Professor John Attia, Associate Professor Phillip Dickson, Associate Professor Liz Milward, Professor Alistair Sim, Associate Professor Paul Tooney, Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Conjoint Professor David Sibbritt, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Professor Xu Dong Zhang, Conjoint Associate Professor Patricia Crock, Conjoint Associate Professor Jeannette Lechner-Scott
Scheme		Role
Priority Research Centre		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$621,143	2006	2013
GNo:G0186919

2005 (2 grants)

Evolutionary algorithms for problems in functional genomics data analysis$218,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott, Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Discovery Projects		Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$218,000	2005	2007
GNo:G0184416

Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW'05)$3,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Associate Professor Regina Berretta, Doctor Michael Hannaford, Associate Professor Frans Henskens, Professor Pablo Moscato, Dr Richard Webber
Scheme		Role
Conference Establishment Grant		Chief Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$3,000	2005	2005
GNo:G0184971

2004 (1 grants)

Feature selection problems arising in Bioinformatics$12,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
New Staff Grant		Chief Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$12,000	2004	2004
GNo:G0183765

2003 (1 grants)

Visit by Dr Guiseppe Lancia 13/08/03 to 24/09/03$4,125
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Project Team
Associate Professor Regina Berretta
Scheme		Role
Visitor Grant		Chief Investigator
Total Amount	Funding Start	Funding Finish
$4,125	2003	2003
GNo:G0183278

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Research Supervision

Number of current supervisions	6
Total current UoN Masters EFTSL	0.9
Total current UoN PhD EFTSL	0.5

For supervisions undertaken at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics, and the institution name is listed below the program name.

Current Supervision

Commenced	Proposed Completion	Program	Supervisor Type	Research Title
2013	2015	M Philosophy(Computer Science)	Principal Supervisor	Evolutionary Computation Applied to Biological Data Analysis
2013	2016	PhD (Biological Sciences)	Co-Supervisor	An Investigation on the Consensus Between Different Transriptomic and Proteomic Analysis Results in Breast Cancer
2012	2016	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	GPU Accelerated Optimal Drug Scheduling Scheme for Personalized Cancer Treatment
2012	2016	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	Combinatorial Optimisation Problems in the Healthcare and Biomedical Technology Sector
2012	2017	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	Applications of Memetic Algorithms in Bioinformatics
2012	2016	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	Meta-Analysis of High Throughput Gene Expression and Proteomic Datasets in Cancer

Past Supervision

Year	Program	Supervisor Type	Research Title
2013	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	An Integrated, Fast and Scalable Approach for Large-Scale Biological Network Analysis
2013	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	Efficient Methods of Feature Selection Based on Combinatorial Optimization Motivated by the Analysis of Large Biological Datasets
2012	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	Mining Disjunctive Patterns in Biomedical Data Sets
2008	PhD (Computer Science)	Co-Supervisor	An Integrated and Scalable Approach Based on Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for the Analysis of Microarray Data
2007	PhD (Computer Science)	Principal Supervisor	Simulated Annealing-Based Hybrid Heuristics for Educational Timetabling Problems

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Associate Professor Regina Berretta

Work Phone	(02) 4921 8975
Fax	(02) 4921 6929
Email	Regina.Berretta@newcastle.edu.au
Position	Associate Professor School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment The University of Newcastle, Australia
Focus Area	Computer Science and Software Engineering
Office	ES229, Engineering Science - D.W. George, Callaghan University Drive Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
URL:	www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/regina-berretta

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2013 (2 grants)

Solving challenging combinatorial optimization problems in bioinformatics by designing high-performance metaheuristics in GPU-CPU supercomputers$20,000Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Educating, informing and preparing high school teachers to engage and inspire the next generation of computer scientists$14,930Funding Body: Google

2012 (4 grants)

Memetic algorithms and adaptive memory metaheuristics for large scale combinatorial optimisation problems arising in biomarker discovery $320,000Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Project EVA: an environmentally responsible facility for interdisciplinary supercomputing applications$263,000Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Teaching Relief - Berretta$50,000Funding Body: University of Newcastle

An integrated plan for leadership development in research teaching and learning and service$8,000Funding Body: University of Newcastle

2011 (2 grants)

Computational prediction and functional clarification of novel drug combination strategies for the treatment of brain tumours$50,000Funding Body: Maitland Cancer Appeal Committee

The Pierre and Marie Curie GPU computing servers$27,000Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

2010 (2 grants)

Identification of novel biomarkers for pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease$24,998Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

Sir Ronald Fisher GPU computing cluster $22,000Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

2007 (1 grants)

Healthy Airways and Obstructive Lung Disease (HAROLD)$20,000Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

2006 (1 grants)

PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)$621,143Funding Body: University of Newcastle

2005 (2 grants)

Evolutionary algorithms for problems in functional genomics data analysis$218,000Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW'05)$3,000Funding Body: University of Newcastle

2004 (1 grants)

Feature selection problems arising in Bioinformatics$12,000Funding Body: University of Newcastle

2003 (1 grants)

Visit by Dr Guiseppe Lancia 13/08/03 to 24/09/03$4,125Funding Body: University of Newcastle

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University of Newcastle

Solving challenging combinatorial optimization problems in bioinformatics by designing high-performance metaheuristics in GPU-CPU supercomputers$20,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Educating, informing and preparing high school teachers to engage and inspire the next generation of computer scientists$14,930
Funding Body: Google

Memetic algorithms and adaptive memory metaheuristics for large scale combinatorial optimisation problems arising in biomarker discovery $320,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Project EVA: an environmentally responsible facility for interdisciplinary supercomputing applications$263,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Teaching Relief - Berretta$50,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

An integrated plan for leadership development in research teaching and learning and service$8,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Computational prediction and functional clarification of novel drug combination strategies for the treatment of brain tumours$50,000
Funding Body: Maitland Cancer Appeal Committee

The Pierre and Marie Curie GPU computing servers$27,000
Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

Identification of novel biomarkers for pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease$24,998
Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

Sir Ronald Fisher GPU computing cluster $22,000
Funding Body: NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)

Healthy Airways and Obstructive Lung Disease (HAROLD)$20,000
Funding Body: Hunter Medical Research Institute

PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)$621,143
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Evolutionary algorithms for problems in functional genomics data analysis$218,000
Funding Body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW'05)$3,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Feature selection problems arising in Bioinformatics$12,000
Funding Body: University of Newcastle

Visit by Dr Guiseppe Lancia 13/08/03 to 24/09/03$4,125
Funding Body: University of Newcastle