Summary
Diman Tootaghaj is a Senior Researcher at Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto with a decade of experience in networking and distributed systems, specializing in SD-WAN, serverless computing, GPU scheduling, and SmartNICs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State and earlier degrees in electrical engineering and secure communications from Sharif University of Technology. Diman’s work bridges deep systems research and practical lab-driven innovation, progressing from postdoctoral research to senior roles within HPE’s Networking and Distributed Systems Lab. He has a strong academic pedigree, having worked in prominent research groups (INSR, NSRG) under well-known advisors, and brings industry research experience from a Microsoft internship and collaborations in telecom R&D. Known for translating complex scheduling and network problems into implementable solutions, he pairs rigorous analytical methods with hands-on prototyping in production-adjacent environments. Based in California, he blends cross-disciplinary expertise in networking, AI/ML-driven resource management, and hardware-accelerated networking to drive next-generation WAN and compute orchestration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Penn State University
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, B.Sc., Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Kurdish, Persian, Turkish