She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she co-directs the Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security with Farinaz Koushanfar.
[2] Her dissertation, Optimal Resource Allocation: Issues and Applications, was supervised by Demosthenis Teneketzis.
[3] She became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington in 2002 before moving to her present position at the University of California, San Diego in 2005.
[2] Javidi was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2021, "for contributions to stochastic resource allocation and active hypothesis testing".
[4] In 2020, the University of Michigan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recognized her with their Distinguished Educator Award, for her "significant and lasting impact in education".