Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University, Computer Science and Engineering Dept.

Brian D. Davison, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
Lehigh University

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Dr. Brian D. Davison is an associate professor of computer science and engineering and director of the undergraduate minor in data science. He teaches courses on data science, data mining, web search engines, networking, system administration, and C and UNIX programming. He heads Lehigh's Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation (WUME) laboratory and serves as editor-in-chief of the ACM journal, Transactions on the Web. While on sabbatical during the 2013-2014 academic year, he worked in the Core Data Science group at Facebook. Dr. Davison earned his B.S. from Bucknell University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University. His research includes search, mining, recommendation and classification problems in text, on the Web and in social networks. He is an NSF Faculty Early Career award winner. Dr. Davison's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Research

Publications
The Web Understanding, Modeling and Evaluation Lab
The PRAISys project

Teaching

Spring 2018: CSE 160 - Introduction to Data Science
Fall 2017: CSE 160 - Introduction to Data Science
Fall 2017: CSE 406 - Research Methods
Spring 2017: CSE 198 - Introduction to Data Science
Spring 2017: CSE 345/445 - WWW Search Engines
(older courses)

Office Hours (233 Building C) for Spring 2018

Wednesday 2-3pm, Thursday 2:30-3:30pm, and by appointment.

Service

Editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on the Web (since 2015).
Organizer or co-organizer of SIGIR 2018, WSDM 2017, SIGIR 2016, SIGIR 2015, WSDM 2014, AppWeb 2012, WSDM 2010, CES/HPC 2009, AIRWeb 2007, ECML/PKDD 2007 GraphLab Workshop, AIRWeb 2006, AIRWeb 2005, WCW 2003.
Track chair, area chair or senior program committee member of WWW 2018, WSDM 2018, SIGIR 2017, WSDM 2017, IJCAI 2016, WWW 2016, WSDM 2016, CIKM 2015, WWW 2015, CIKM 2014, SIGIR 2014, AAAI 2014, SIGIR 2013, AAAI 2011, WWW 2011, KDD 2010.
Additional program committee membership in the past decade: BigData 2017, HotWeb 2017, WWW 2017, CIKM 2016, HotWeb 2016, ACL 2016, WI-IAT 2015 Special Session on Quality of User Generated Content, ASONAM 2015, KDD 2015, SIGIR 2015 Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR, WSDM 2015, WWW 2014, WebQuality 2014, WSDM 2014, KDD 2013, ICWSM 2013, WebQuality 2013, WWW 2013, WSDM 2013, CIKM 2012 Demos, SIGIR 2012, TAIA 2012, SOMA 2012, ICWSM 2012, WWW 2012, WebQuality 2012, LSNA 2012, WSDM 2012, WSCD 2012, SPIRE 2011, KDD 2011, ICWSM 2011, SIGIR 2011, WebQuality 2011, WSDM 2011, WSDM 2011 Workshops, MLSC 2010, SIGIR 2010, FGSIR 2010, Web N-gram Workshop 2010, SOMA 2010, ICWSM 2010, WWW 2010, ICDM 2009, CNIKM 2009, SIGIR 2009, AIRWeb 2009, WWW 2009, IR+SN 2009 Workshop, WSDM 2009, WSCD 09.
Reviewer for multiple book publishers and many conferences and journals.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Jun 28-29 2017	Livermore, CA	Visit Lawrence Livermore National Lab, OSIsoft
Sep 15 2017	Lehigh Univ.	Impact Symposium: Privacy and Security in the Era of Big Data
Apr 5-8 2018	Ann Arbor, MI	SIGIR 2018 PC Meeting
Apr 23-27 2018	San Francisco, CA	OSIsoft PI World Conference
May 16-19 2018	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	PRAISys Annual Meeting
Jul 8-12 2018	Ann Arbor, MI	SIGIR 2018 Conference

Spring 2018 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When	Where	What
Mon 9:30-10:00am	STEPS	Meet with CSE160 graders
Mon 10:10-11:00am	ST 101	CSE 160: Intro to Data Science
Mon 1:30-2:30pm	BC 233	Research Group Meeting
Mon 4:00-6:00	PL 466	College or University Faculty Meeting (occasional)
Tue 1:00-2:00pm	ATLSS	PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly)
Tue 4:00pm-5:00pm	TBD	CSE Dept. Faculty Meeting (occasional)
Wed 10:10-11:00am	ST 101	CSE 160: Intro to Data Science
Wed 1:00-2:00pm	Varies	Research Group Meeting
Wed 2:00-3:00pm	BC 233	Office Hour
Wed 3:00-4:00pm	BC 328/233	Research meeting
Wed 4:00-5:30pm	BC 233	Research Meeting
Thu 2:30-3:30pm	BC 233	Office Hour
Thu 3:30-4:00pm	BC 233	Teleconference (bi-weekly)
Thu 4:00-5:00pm	BC 233	Grad Student meetings
Fri 10:10-11:00am	ST 101	CSE 160: Intro to Data Science
Fri 11:00-11:30pm	STEPS lobby	Research Meeting
Fri noon-1:00pm	TBD	CSE Graduate Research Seminar (occasional)

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news

My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2018

Current postdocs:

Current lab members:

Recent visitors:

Former undergraduate students:

Faith Komlo

Former graduate students:

Jennifer Bayzick Tannenbaum

Kalyan C. Boggavarapu

Kiran K. Komaravolu

David B. Lewanda

David G. Deschenes

To Reach Me

Email: davison(at)cse.lehigh.edu
Office: Building C, Room 233

Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lehigh University
113 Research Drive (Building C)
Bethlehem, PA 18015

A few sayings that I like (the wording is mine, but I've probably picked up the content elsewhere)

Everything in moderation, also known in Latin as Modus omnibus in rebus.
-- Ancient Greek Proverb (the Latin is from Plautus).
Never ascribe to malice what you can ascribe to stupidity -- especially your own.
-- See Hanlon's Razor and M.N. Plano's version
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men; Gang aft a-gley
-- Robert Burns: To a Mouse (original Scots)

Love like there is no tomorrow.
-- Multiple popular references
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
-- Voltaire (loosely translated from the French)
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.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
-- Jan L. A. van de Sepscheut (attributed)

Last modified: 14 April 2018