Educational history:

Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science), April 2010
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada
Thesis: Shrack: A Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer System for Document Sharing and tracking
Co-supervisors: Dr. Evangelos E. Milios and Dr. Vlado Keselj

Master of Engineering (Computer Science), December 1999
Computer Science and Information management program,
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
Thesis: Using Binary Decision Diagrams for Optical Character Recognition

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering), March 1997
Computer Engineering Department,
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand
Project: Two-axis Actuators Controlled by Using CAD's Database

Research and Publications:

Research interest:

- Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing

- Social Networks and Web Applications

- Machine Learning and Data Mining

- Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing

Publications:

Journal Paper

- Hathai Tanta-ngai and Michael McAllister, "A Peer-to-Peer Expressway over Chord ", Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Volume 44, Issues 7-8, Page 659-677, New York, NY, Elsevier Science. October 2006 (online access from www.sciencedirect.com)[pdf][bib]

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

- Hathai Tanta-ngai and Evangelos E. Milios and Vlado Keselj, "Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks for Collaborative Document Tracking", in CNIKM' 09: Proceeding of the CIKM 2009 workshop on Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management , Hong Kong, China, November 2009. (online access from portal.acm.org)[pdf][bib]

- Hathai Tanta-ngai and Vlado Keselj and Evangelos E. Milios, "Shrack: Description and Performance Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer System for Document Sharing and Tracking using Pull-Only Information Dissemination", in Hot-P2P 2007: Proceedings of the IPDPS 2007 workshop on the Fourth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Long Beach, California, USA, March 2007. (online access from ieeexplore.ieee.org) [pdf][bib]

- Hathai Tanta-ngai, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Sittichai Jiampojamarn, and Nick Cercone,"Secure Mail Transfer Protocol (SecMTP)",In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in the Internet, Processing, Systems, and Interdisciplinary Research, IPSI 2003, Sveti Stefan, Montenegro (Former Yugoslavia), October 5-11, 2003. [pdf][bib]

- H. Tanta-ngai and K. Kanchanasut, "Using Binary Decision diagrams for Optical Character Recognition", Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (ICVNZ 2000), New Zealand, 2000.

- S. Pitaksaleesakul, H. Tanta-ngai, S. Toomnark, "2-Axis Actuators Controlled by Using CAD's Database", Proceedings of the 20th Electrical Engineering Conference, Bangkok, 1997.

- Hathai Tanta-ngai," Object-based Annotation for Digital Images",Graphic Interface 2003 (GI 2003),, Halifax, Canada, June 11-13, 2003.

Technical Reports:

- Hathai Tanta-ngai, "An Expressway over Chord in Peer-to-Peer Systems", Technical Report. CS-2005-19, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada, October 2005.

- Tony Abou-Assaleh, Oliver Baltzer, Chris Jordan, Philip O'Brien and Hathai Tanta-ngai, "Collaborative, Distributed Information Management and Retrieval Architecture for the Enterprises", Technical Report. CS-2005-13, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada, August 2005.

Prizes and Awards:

- December 1999, The Shoichiro Toyoda Prize for Best Woman Scholar, Asian Institite of Technology.

- December 1999, The Hisamatsu Prize for Best Computer Science Student, Asian Institite of Technology.

- December 1999, Werner von Siemens Excellence Award for Highest Achieving Student, Siemens Ltd. (Thailand).

- March 1997, The second class honor in Computer Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology.

Scholarships:

- December 2002, Royal Thai Government Scholarship for Ph.D. studies abroad.

- May 1998, Royal Thai Government Scholarship for Master degree program.

Extracurricular activities:

- January 2007 - present, Organizer/Treasurer The Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference 2007, Dalhousie University

- January 2006 - June 2006, Organizer/Treasurer The Conference on Engaging in Open Source (CEOS06), Dalhousie University

- October 2005 - December 2006, Treasurer for the Dalhousie Student Chapter of the ACM.

- April 2005 - September 2005, Secretary/treasurer for the Dalhousie Student Chapter of the ACM.

- January 2005 - December 2005, President Thai Student Society at Dalhousie University.

• Major event: Thai night fund raising for Tsunami Victims in Thailand.

- September 2004 - August 2005, Student Representative Faculty Search Committee, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.

- January 2004 - December 2004, Founder/ Vice-Chair for the Dalhousie Student Chapter of the ACM.

- Febuary 2003, Organizer Thai Night.

- 2003, Voluntee Chair for the 3rd Annual Dalhousie Computer Science In-House Conference, Dalhousie University.

- September 1998 - November 1999, Class Representative for the Computer Science and Information Management program, AIT.

- January 1999 - July 1999, Micro Computer Education Committee, AIT.

- January 1999 - July 1999, Sports Committee, AIT.

- September 1998 - March 1999, General Assembly Member at AIT Student Union.

- 1992, The National Science Camp, Thailand.

- 1992, The Representative of Educational Region for national high school science quiz competition.

- 1991, The Fifth International Science Camp, Thailand.

- 1991, The First-40 Rank in national competition for selecting representative of Thai student to participate in Int'l Physics Olympics.

Work Experiences:

- January - April 2007: Teaching Assistant , Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

- May - August 2002: Visiting Scholar, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

- December 1999 - April 2002: Lecturer, Computer Engineering Department, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.

- May - July 1999: Teaching Assistant, Computer Science and Information Management Program, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

- June 1997 - June 1998: Lecturer, Computer Engineering Department, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.

- April - May 1996: Exchange Student on the job training program, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.