Contact:
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Science Building S-3-090
Boston, MA 02125-3393 USA

Email: rvetro'at'cs.umb.edu

Biosketch

Rosanne Vetro received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she has been pursuing a Ph.D. degree. Her advisor is Professor Dan A. Simovici and her research interests are in the area of data mining with application to multimedia content, bioinformatics, optimization and data hiding. In the past, she had worked as a team leader in the Research and Development Engineering Department of TV Globo - a Brazilian broadcast company - and also held a visiting researcher position at the Tokyo Science & Technical Research Labs of NHK - a Japanese broadcast company. During her time working at NHK, she contributed to the development of the ISO/IEC MPEG-7 International Standard.

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Research

@ UMASS Boston

Mining of Determining Sets for Partially Defined Functions
Mining of Complex Areas in Images
Study on data hiding

@ NHK

A Study on MPEG-7 Video Program Profile

Publications

R. Vetro, D. Simovici, "Entropic Quadtrees and Mining Mars Craters", ICDM 2010, Berlin, Germany, July 12-14 2010.

R. Vetro, W. Ding, D. Simovici, "Mining for High Complexity Regions Using Entropy and Box Counting Dimension Quad-Trees", 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Beijing, China, July 07-09 2010. (Best Paper Award)

D. Simovici, D. Pletea, R. Vetro, "Information-Theoretical Mining of Determining Sets for Partially Defined Functions", 40th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, Barcelona, Spain, May 26-28 2010.

D. Simovici, D. Pletea, R. Vetro, "Mining Determining Sets for Partially Defined Functions", Advances in Data Mining - 9th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2009, Leipzig, Germany. LNAI 5633 pp.353-360.(Springer)

Academic Work

Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston:

Fall 2008 - Present
Undergraduate Course: Theory of Computation (CS420)

Spring 2011
Graduate Course: Analysis of Algorithms (CS624)

Groups and Associations

IEEE

Women in Computer Science at UMASS Boston
Workshop (December 8th, 2010):
"Mining for High Complexity Regions Using Entropy and Box Counting Dimension Quad-Trees" (Short Version)

Reference - Books

Digital Watermarking and Steganography - Ingemar J. Cox, Matthew L. Miller, Jeffrey A. Bloom, Jessica Fridrich and Ton Kalker

The Algorithm Design Manual - Steven S. Skiena

Elements of Information Theory - Thomas M. Cover and Joy A.Thomas

Mathematical Tools for Data Mining: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics - Dan A. Simovici and Chabane Djeraba

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David J.C. Mackay

The Theory of Matrices - Peter Lancaster and Miron Tismenetsky

Computability, Complexity, And Languages - Martin D. Davis, Ron Sigal, Elaine J. Weyuker

Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H.Cormen, Charles E.Leiserson, Ronald L.Rivest and Clifford Stein