Pooria Namyar

I am a senior researcher at Microsoft Research. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Southern California and my bachelor’s degree at the Sharif University of Technology.

My research is in the intersection of theory, systems, and machine learning. I focus on studying complex systems and enhancing their performance and availability at scale. I have received several awards, including the Google Ph.D. fellowship, the Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star Award, and the MHI Scholarship. My research has also had direct industry impacts: My work on max-min fair resource allocation, Soroush (NSDI’24), has been deployed in Microsoft’s traffic engineering pipeline; Firefly (SIGCOMM’25), my work on clock synchronization, is deployed at Google; and my heuristic analysis tools have uncovered and addressed inefficiencies in production heuristics.

Feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions or want to discuss new ideas!