Javidi founded and co-directs the Center for Machine-Integrated Computing and Security at UC San Diego. Among her projects is DetecDrone Target Search Technology, what she calls drones that think. Her research focus is on stochastic analysis, design, and control of information collection, processing, and transfer in modern communication and networked systems. Interests include: Information acquisition and utilization (such as active hypothesis testing and variable length coding over channels with feedback); optimal routing in wireless mesh networks; cognitive and delay-sensitive communications and networking; and communications under application and/or secrecy constraints. Her work includes the applications of microeconomic theory and organizational science to the design of wireless networks. Interests include: theory of active learning, information acquisition and statistical inference, information theory with feedback, stochastic control theory, and wireless communications and communication networks