Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering and Applied Science Lehigh University

Brian D. Davison is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering and teaches courses on web search engines, networking, system administration, C and UNIX programming. He heads the Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation (WUME) laboratory. Dr. Davison earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bucknell University and has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University. As a graduate student, he led development in the Rutgers DiscoWeb search engine project which was later spun out as an internet startup called Teoma (and was subsequently purchased by Ask Jeeves). He continues to do research in this area, focusing on the integration of text and link analysis applied to search and classification problems on the Web. Dr. Davison's interests additionally include information retrieval, data mining, network infrastructure for the WWW, and the analysis of trust and authority in information networks. He is a 2006 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award winner and one of twelve Microsoft Live Labs "Accelerating Search" award recipients. Dr. Davison's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft Research, and Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• Workshop on Information Retrieval for Advertising (IRA 2008): Papers are due May 26.
• Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0 Workshop (WBBTMine 08): Papers are due June 16.
• Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2009): Abstracts are due August 4.

Service

• Program committee member and/or organizer of WSDM 2009, WBBTMine 08, KDD 2008, SIGIR 2008, IRA 2008, WWW 2008, AIRWeb 2008, TROA 2008, WSDM 2008, ECML/PKDD GraphLab Workshop, ENC 2007, AIRWeb 2007, SIGIR 2007, WWW 2007, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV (DRR), WebKDD 2006, AIRWeb 2006, SIGIR 2006, WWW 2006, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIII (DRR), WWW 2005, AIRWeb 2005, HIP05 Workshop, WWW 2004, 3rd Web Dynamics Workshop (2004), Behavior-based UI Customization Workshop (2004), ICML 2003, WCW 2003, PAPA 2002.
• Advisor to Lehigh chapters of the ACM and Tau Beta Pi.
• Reviewer for multiple book publishers and many conferences and journals.

Office Hours (Packard Lab 380) for Summer 2008

By appointment.

Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Feb 12 2008	Easton, PA	Presentation at Lafayette Dept. of Computer Science
Jul 20-24 2008	Singapore	SIGIR 2008 Conference

Schedule, Spring 2008

When	Where	What
Wed noon-1:00	Asa Packer	Lunch group
Wed 1:00-2:00	FM???	HPC Steering Committee Meeting (occasional)
TBD	PL607	WUME Research Group meeting

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. My web site on web caching and content distribution networks. Current graduate students: Na Dai, Liangjie Hong, Lan Nie, Xiaoguang Qi, and Jian Wang.

Former graduate students: David G. Deschenes (MS '03) David B. Lewanda (MS '03) Kalyan C. Boggavarapu (MS '04) Kiran K. Komaravolu (MS '04) Wei Zhang (MS '04) Vinay Goel (MS '06) Baoning Wu (PhD '07) Shruti Bhandari (MS '08) YaoShuang Wang (MS '08).

To Reach Me

• Email: davison(at)cse.lehigh.edu
• Phone: +1-610-758-3453 (but please use email whenever possible)
• Fax: +1-610-758-4096
• Mailing Address:
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Lehigh University
  19 Memorial Drive West
  Bethlehem, PA 18015
• Office: Packard Lab 380

Everything in moderation.
-- Ancient Greek Proverb

Never ascribe to malice what you can ascribe to stupidity -- especially your own.
-- See Hanlon's Razor and M.N. Plano's version

A PhD doesn't mean you are an expert in any particular subject; it just means that you could become one if you wanted to.

Love like there is no tomorrow.
-- Multiple popular references