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Distinguished Engineer, AI
Raul Diaz is Distinguished Engineer at Cisco where he works on AI workflows, AI infrastructure, and Generative AI including Agents. During his career he has worked as a chip architect and then as a software architect on Generative AI workflows and Agents, AI-based video processing, computer vision, media transport, and video codecs with 14 US patents issued, 4 patents pending, papers published with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and many technical conference papers. Previously, Raul Diaz spent 6 years as Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation in the Network and Edge Group’s Office of the CTO, where he led the video and AI software architecture team. Raul has a BSEE from Yale University, has guest-lectured for several years at Stanford University on Computer Vision and Deep Learning, and is a member of IEEE. Raul has helped take a company public (InterVideo, IVII: NASDAQ 2003), started and sold his own company (Tomnica sold to ArcSoft in 2010), and been brought in as CEO to turn around and sell a company (Vanguard Video sold to Beamr in 2015/2016).
YALE UNIVERSITY
B.S, Electrical Engineering
January 1, 1981 – January 1, 1985
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
January 1, 1977 – January 1, 1981
Cisco
Distinguished Engineer
June 1, 2025 – Present
Milpitas, California, United States · Hybrid
Intel Corporation
Sr. Engineering Director (Sr. Principal Engineer), Video and AI Software Architecture
February 1, 2019 – June 1, 2025
Santa Clara, California · Hybrid
DynEd International
Member Board Of Directors
December 1, 2016 – May 1, 2019
Burligame, Californa
Ittiam Systems Inc
Senior Vice President, Computer Vision and Machine Learning
September 1, 2015 – January 1, 2019
Santa Clara, California
Vanguard Video
CEO
May 1, 2012 – April 1, 2015
Palo Alto, California
Kalliot
Founder
February 1, 2012 – Present
Palo Alto, California
ArcSoft
VP Sales and Marketing
July 1, 2010 – January 1, 2012
Fremont, California
Tomnica, Inc.
Founder, President and CEO
December 1, 2008 – July 1, 2010
Palo Alto, California
Lumidigm
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
August 1, 2005 – December 1, 2008
Albuquerque, New Mexico
INTERVIDEO, INC
Officer and Vice President, Sales and Marketing
January 1, 1999 – January 1, 2005
Fremont, California
LuxSonor
Director of Marketing
January 1, 1996 – January 1, 1998
Fremont, California
STMicroelectronics & Inmos Corp.
Director, Advanced Technology Group
January 1, 1989 – January 1, 1999
Based in San Jose, California with teams in France and Italy
Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial)
Lead Design Engineer
January 1, 1987 – January 1, 1988
Palo Alto, California
HAZELTINE CORPORATION
Software Engineer
January 1, 1985 – January 1, 1987
Greenlawn, New York
Guest lecture at Stanford University: graduate level lecture on machine learning and convolutional neural networks
May 1, 2018 – Present
Guest lecture at Stanford University in May 2018 on Convolutional Neural Networks for the class EE 292A: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Machine Learning Hardware taught by Raul Camposano, Anton Domic, Patrick Groeneveld. The presentation to graduate students focused on theory with an example TensorFlow network.
Cultural Fit Analysis
The candidate has a diverse career path spanning engineering, leadership, entrepreneurship, and board membership across various industries (semiconductors, multimedia, AI, education). While this demonstrates adaptability and broad experience, the direct alignment with a dedicated 'Security Engineer' role is not explicitly evident from the project or experience descriptions. The focus has been primarily on AI, video, and networking, which can have security implications, but a direct security-centric role or project is missing. The breadth of experience suggests a capacity to adapt to new domains, but the specific cultural fit for a security-focused team would need further exploration.
Soft Skills & Operational Fit
The candidate's extensive experience in leadership, sales, and marketing roles suggests strong communication, negotiation, and strategic thinking skills. Their history of founding and selling companies indicates entrepreneurial drive and business acumen. The board membership further highlights governance and strategic oversight capabilities. However, the provided data does not offer direct insights into stress handling or team collaboration in a security engineering context.