SEARCH

Search Details

Thandar Thant Phyo

Information Initiative Center Knowledge Generation InfrastructureSpecially Appointed Assistant Professor

I did my Ph.D. at Hokkaido University on multi-objective optimization (NSGA-II/III) for scientific workflows in cloud computing. My main focus was computational resource allocation and job scheduling, with results published at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017 and in Scientific Programming.

Building on that optimization and data processing background, I joined the ARIM project (Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology) at Hokkaido University in 2022. There I designed metadata schemas and built BI tools for cleanroom experimental data, getting hands-on experience with data management in materials science.

Since February 2026, I mainly work at the Information Initiative Center, where I help different research groups across the university with metadata design, DMP templates, and research data management infrastructure. I'm also working on introducing semantic ontologies into syntactic metadata to better align with FAIR principles. I still spend part of my time on the ARIM nanotechnology side.

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • Ph.D (Computer Science and Information Technology), Hokkaido University, Mar. 2018
■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
  • 80972372
J-Global ID■ Research Keywords and Fields
Research Keyword
  • Scientific Workflow Optimization
  • Cloud Computing
  • Multi-Objective Optimization
  • Research Data Management
  • Metadata Schema Design
  • Big Data
  • Database
Research Field
  • Informatics, Theory of informatics, Multi-Objective Optimization, Evolutionary Computation, Cloud Computing, Big Data
  • Informatics, Database, Database Management System, Data Engineering
  • Informatics, Theory of informatics, Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning, Data Driven Science
  • Informatics, Software, System Development

Career

■ Career
Career
  • Feb. 2026 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Information Initiative Center, Knowledge Generation Infrastructure Research Division, S.A Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2022 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Institute for Integrated Innovations (Former Creative Research Institution), S.A Assistant Professor, Japan
  • Sep. 2021 - Mar. 2022
    CyberMissions Co., Ltd, Yokohama, Japan, System Development Division, System Engineer, Japan
  • Nov. 2020 - Aug. 2021
    Business Information Technology Co., Ltd, Yokohama, Japan, AI System Development Division, System Engineer, Japan
  • Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2020
    University of Information Technology, Yangon, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Faculty of Computer Science, Lecturer, Myanmar
  • Oct. 2015 - Nov. 2018
    University of Computer Studies, Hpa-An, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Faculty of Computer Science, Assistant Lecturer, Myanmar
  • Feb. 2007 - Sep. 2015
    University of Computer Studies, Hpa-An, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Faculty of Computer Science, Tutor/Researcher, Myanmar
Educational Background
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018, Ph.D (Computer Science & Information Technology) (Hokkaido University), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Ph.D (Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2015, Research Student (Computer Science and Information Technology)(Hokkaido University), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Research Student (Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Apr. 2006 - Dec. 2008, University of Computer Studies, Yangon, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science
  • Sep. 2001 - Apr. 2006, University of Computer Studies, Yangon, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons:), Myanmar

Research activity information

■ Awards
  • Apr. 2017, Nitobe School, Hokkaido University, Nitobe Program for Graduate Student Scholarship
  • Apr. 2014, Japanese Government, Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship
    Multi-objective resource optimizations of Big Data Applications in Cloud Computing Infrastructure
  • Mar. 2012, IT Business Plan Contest 2012 held by Myanmar Computer Federation (MCF), CIESF and KDDI foundation, Top Ten Selection Prize
    Development of Cloud Infrastructure System
■ Papers
  • Unified Metadata Architecture and Workflow Automation for SEM Imaging in Support of FAIR and Open Science
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Takashi Endo; Yuko Mori; Naomi Hirai; Masashi Takei; Takuya Yumine; Masaharu Munetomo; Yasutaka Matsuo
    Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), 137, 146, 29 Jul. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
  • Toward Schema-Based BI for Cleanroom Experimental Metadata: Organization, Visualization, and a Beta-Stage Case Study
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Takashi Endo; Masaharu Munetomo; Yasutaka Matsuo
    Proceedings of the 2026 12th International Conference on Computing and Data Engineering, 98, 111, ACM, 04 Feb. 2026, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
    International conference proceedings
  • QoE optimization of A/V streaming using Linux OS fine tuning
    Kyaw Thet Han; Phyo Thandar Thant
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Information Science and System, ACM, 15 Nov. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
    International conference proceedings
  • Multi-Objective Resource Optimization of Big Data Applications in Cloud Computing Infrastructure
    Phyo Thandar Thant
    1, 139, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Many-Objective Resource Optimization with NSGA-III for Scientific Workflow Execution in the Cloud
    第; 回進化計算学会研究会プログラム
    Phyo Thandar Thant,Courtney Powell, Martin Schlueter,Masaharu Munetomo, 06 Mar. 2018, [Lead author]
  • A Level-Wise Load Balanced Scientific Workflow Execution Optimization Using NSGA-II
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Courtney Powell; Martin Schlueter; Masaharu Munetomo
    2017 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), IEEE, May 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
    International conference proceedings
  • Multiobjective Level-Wise Scientific Workflow Optimization in IaaS Public Cloud Environment
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Courtney Powell; Martin Schlueter; Masaharu Munetomo
    Scientific Programming, 2017, 1, 17, Hindawi Limited, 2017, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
    Scientific journal, Cloud computing in the field of scientific applications such as scientific big data processing and big data analytics has become popular because of its service oriented model that provides a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically scalable computing resources and services on demand over the Internet. However, resource selection to make the right choice of instances for a certain application of interest is a challenging problem for researchers. In addition, providing services with optimal performance at the lowest financial resource deployment cost based on users’ resource selection is quite challenging for cloud service providers. Consequently, it is necessary to develop an optimization system that can provide benefits to both users and service providers. In this paper, we conduct scientific workflow optimization on three perspectives: makespan minimization, virtual machine deployment cost minimization, and virtual machine failure minimization in the cloud infrastructure in a level-wise manner. Further, balanced task assignment to the virtual machine instances at each level of the workflow is also considered. Finally, system efficiency verification is conducted through evaluation of the results with different multiobjective optimization algorithms such as SPEA2 and NSGA-II.
  • Multi-Objective Hadoop Configuration Optimization using Steady-State NSGA-II
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Courtney Powell; Akiyoshi Sugiki; Masaharu Munetomo
    2016 JOINT 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (SCIS) AND 17TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISIS), 293, 298, 2016, [Peer-reviewed], [Lead author]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Evaluation of Three Steady-State NSGA-III Offspring Selection Schemes for Many-Objective Optimization
    Courtney Powell; Masaharu Munetomo; Phyo Thandar Thant
    2016 JOINT 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (SCIS) AND 17TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISIS), 166, 171, 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
    English, International conference proceedings
  • Parameter Optimization Framework on Apache Hadoop using a Steady-State Genetic Algorithm
    回MPS研究発表会
    Thant Phyo Thandar,Sugiki Akiyoshi,Munetomo Masaharu, 29 Sep. 2015, [Lead author]
  • Data Integration from Heterogeneous Databases using Improved Tries Structure
    Phyo Thandar Thant, Thinn Thu Naing
    Twelfth International Conference On Computer Applications (ICCA 2014), Feb. 2014, [Lead author]
  • Enhancing the Availability and Partition Tolerance of NoSQL Databases
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Thinn Thu Naing
    Eleventh International Conference On Computer Applications (ICCA 2013), Feb. 2013, [Lead author]
  • Improving the Availability of NoSQL Databases for Cloud Storage
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Thinn Thu Naing
    University of Computer Studies, Yangon, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, ICCA 2012, Feb. 2012, [Lead author]
  • Secure Service Provisioning in Cloud using Attribute Based Encryption
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Thinn Thu Naing
    Ninth International Conference On Computer Applications (ICCA 2011), May 2011, [Lead author]
    English
  • Duplicate Record Elimination using Priority Queue Algorithm
    Phyo Thandar Thant; Thin Thin Htike
    University of Computer Studies, Yangon, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Dec. 2008, [Lead author]
■ Other Activities and Achievements
  • AI/ML for Data Driven Science: Case Study – A Study of Regression Analysis in Thermal Atomic Layer Deposition Processes
    ISAJ Hokkaido Symposium 2024, Dec. 2024
  • Towards Data-Empowered Science: Shaping the Future of Science Research
    Phyo Thandar Thant, Sun-Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China (URL: http://www.nea2023.net/), Nov. 2023
  • Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence
    Myat Pwint Phyu; Win Win Naing; Phyo Thandar Thant, ASEAN Cyber University, Dec. 2019
  • A Container-based Sizing Framework for Apache Hadoop/Spark Clusters
    Akiyoshi Sugiki, Phyo Thandar Thant, Hadoop Summit Tokyo (URL: https://developer.aliyun.com/article/71023), Oct. 2016