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, social networking, 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

• Web Search Click Data Workshop (WSCD09): Data Requests are due September 3 (papers on December 5).
• World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009): Papers are due November 3.

Service

• Program committee member and/or organizer of WWW 2009, WSDM 2009, WSCD 09, 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 Fall 2008

Mondays 10-11am, Fridays 1-2pm, and by appointment.

Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Jul 15-17 2008	Cambridge, UK	Microsoft Research Cambridge
Jul 18-25 2008	Singapore	SIGIR 2008 Conference
Aug 10-16 2008	Outer Banks, NC

Schedule + Calendar, Fall 2008

When Where What Mon 10:10-11:00am PL380 Office Hour in Packard 380 Mon 11:10-noon PL 360 CSE 342: Fundamentals of Internetworking Mon noon-1:00 PL3XX CSE Dept. Faculty or Committee Meeting Mon 3:10-4:00pm FM??? HPC Steering Committee Meeting (occasional) Tue 9:30-noon PL122 CSE 342 Lab Tue 10:45-noon WH 451 Graph Mining and Social Networks Wed 11:10-noon PL 360 CSE 342: Fundamentals of Internetworking Wed noon-1:00 Asa Packer Lunch group Thu 10:45-noon WH 451 Graph Mining and Social Networks Thu 1:30-4:00pm PL122 CSE 342 Lab Fri 11:10-noon PL 360 CSE 342: Fundamentals of Internetworking Fri 1:10-2:00pm PL380 Office Hour in Packard 380 Fri 2:00-4:00pm PL607 WUME Research Group meeting TBD TBD Tau Beta Pi

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, Denis Thomas, Jian Wang, and Zaihan Yang.

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

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