Tara Javidi

Biography

Tara Javidi received her BS in electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She received her MS degrees in electrical engineering (systems) and in applied mathematics (stochastic analysis) as well as her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Tara Javidi was an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle. In 2005, she joined the University of California, San Diego, where she is currently the inaugural holder of Jerzy (George) Lewak Chair and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in Halicioglu Data Science Institute. In 2012-2013, she spent her sabbatical at Stanford University as a visiting faculty. She is the founding CSO/CTO of KavAI, a startup that develops an adaptive and integrated sensing and AI platform to scale intelligence to the industrial and large-scale operations that most need it.

Tara Javidi's research interests are in the theory of active learning, information acquisition and statistical inference, information theory with feedback, and stochastic control theory with a diversity of applications from wireless communication networks to multi-agent and federated systems to artificial intelligence (AI).

Tara Javidi is a Fellow of IEEE where she previously served as the Editor in Chief of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (2022/23/24), the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society (elected 2018/19/20-2021/22/23, ex-officio 2024), a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2017/18) as well as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (2019/2020). She and her former PhD students are recipients of the 2021 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper. She has received numerous awards recognizing her research, educational, and leadership contributions including the 2018 and 2019 Qualcomm Faculty Awards, the University of Michigan ECE's Distinguished Educator Award, and the University of California Academic Council Chairs Award for Mid-Career Leadership.