Shadha Tabatabai currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Indiana Institute of Technology, a position held since July 2022. Prior to this role, Shadha Tabatabai was a lecturer at Al-Nahrain University from 2002 to August 2021 and worked as part-time faculty at Western Michigan University from August 2019 to May 2020. Shadha Tabatabai earned a Doctor of Science degree in Computer Science from Western Michigan University.