Research Scientist · AI/ML

Maziyar Nazari

Building systems at the intersection of machine learning and infrastructure — from distributed training networks to real-time ad ranking at scale.

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Research Scientist · Meta · Ads Ranking & Foundational AI · Monetization
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Experience

Aug 2025 –
Present
Research Scientist
Meta · Menlo Park, CA
Developing early-stage ads retrieval and ranking systems at scale, applying state-of-the-art ML modeling techniques within the Monetization org.
Dec 2024 –
Aug 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Colorado Boulder
Research on deep learning infrastructure and resilient distributed ML workloads.
2022
Ph.D. ML Research Intern
Uber · San Francisco, CA
Real-time graph clustering for marketplace matching, optimizing ETA and Gross Booking via data analysis, graph algorithms, and ML. Marketplace Matching Intent & Optimization team.
2021
Software Engineering Intern
Apple · Cupertino, CA
Performance analysis and 40% improvement of Sysdiagnose. System Services & Daemons team.
2020
Software Engineering Intern
Salesforce · Louisville, CO
Built a proxy service intercepting REST and gRPC calls to generate stubs for mocking. Data Manager Setup team.
2018 – 2024
Research Assistant
University of Colorado Boulder
PhD research spanning ML for systems, container resource allocation, serverless platforms, and OS resource management with deep learning.
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Publications

IUI 2023
Capturing and Predicting User Frustration to Support a Smart Operating System
Goodarzy, Keller, Nazari, Rozner, Han, Dras, Lee, Richards
ICDCS 2022
Escra: Event-driven, Sub-second Container Resource Allocation
Cusack, Nazari, Goodarzy, Hunhoff, Oberai, Keller, Rozner, Han
IEEE Trans. Network & Service Mgmt. 2021
Software Packet-Level Network Analytics at Cloud Scale
Michel, Sonchack, Cusack, Nazari, Keller, Smith
SDS 2021
Optimizing and Extending Serverless Platforms: A Survey
Nazari, Goodarzy, Keller, Rozner, Mishra
APSys 2021
SmartOS: Towards Automated Learning and User-Adaptive Resource Allocation in Operating Systems
Goodarzy, Nazari, Han, Keller, Rozner
IEEE ICMLA 2020
Resource Management in Cloud Computing Using Machine Learning: A Survey
Goodarzy, Nazari, Han, Keller, Rozner
HotEdge 2019
Shimmy: Shared Memory Channels for High Performance Inter-Container Communication
Abranches*, Goodarzy*, Nazari*, Mishra, Keller
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Education

2018 – 2024
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder · GPA 4.0
2013 – 2018
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (IT)
University of Tehran · Top 0.2% Nationwide
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Skills

ML / AI
PyTorch TensorFlow Keras Distributed Training LSTM GANs CNNs RL NLP Scikit-learn
Systems & Infra
RDMA Docker Kubernetes OpenStack Ansible Prometheus Nginx gRPC
Languages
Python C/C++ Java Bash SQL C# MATLAB
Networking & SDN
Mininet Floodlight RYU GNS3 SDN Wireshark