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

Brian D. Davison is an associate 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. from Bucknell University and has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University. His research is in web search and mining, 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. Dr. Davison's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (including an NSF Faculty Early CAREER award), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Sun.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• WebQuality 2012 papers are due February 14.

Service

• Organizer or co-organizer of AppWeb 2012, WSDM 2010, CES/HPC 2009, AIRWeb 2007, ECML/PKDD 2007 GraphLab Workshop, AIRWeb 2006, AIRWeb 2005, WCW 2003.
• Track chair or senior program committee member of AAAI 2011, WWW 2011, KDD 2010.
• Program committee member of SIGIR 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, WBBTMine 08, KDD 2008, SIGIR 2008, IRA 2008, WWW 2008, AIRWeb 2008, TROA 2008, WSDM 2008, ENC 2007, SIGIR 2007, WWW 2007, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV (DRR), WebKDD 2006, SIGIR 2006, WWW 2006, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIII (DRR), WWW 2005, HIP05 Workshop, WWW 2004, 3rd Web Dynamics Workshop (2004), Behavior-based UI Customization Workshop (2004), ICML 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 514C) for Spring 2012

Wed 10:00-noon, and by appointment.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
April 14-15 2011	Bethlehem, PA	Lehigh HPC Symposium
Apr 29-30 2011	NYU-Poly, New York City	Research Meeting
May 18-27 2011	Kona and Honolulu, Hawaii	Vacation!
Aug 7-11 2011	San Francisco	AAAI 2011
Oct 24-28 2011	Glasgow, Scotland	CIKM 2011
Nov 5 2011	Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA	ACM Regional Programming Contest
Nov 7 2011	Washington, DC	CCC LiSPI workshop
Feb 8-12 2012	Seattle, WA	WSDM 2012 Conference

Schedule + Calendar, Spring 2012

When Where What Mon 9:10-10:00 PL258 CSE 265: System and Network Administration Mon 10-noon PL514B WUME Research Group meeting Mon 4:10-6:00 PL466 College or University Faculty Meeting (occasional) Tue 1:10-2pm FM625 HPC Steering Committee Meeting (occasional) Tue 3:30-5:30pm Home Work from home Wed 9:10-10:00 PL258 CSE 265: System and Network Administration Wed 10:00-noon PL514C Office Hours in Packard 514C Wed 1:00-2:00 PL514B ML/DM Reading Group Thu all day Home Work from home Thu noon-1pm PL??? CSE Dept. Faculty Meeting (occasional) Fri 9:10-11:00 PL112 CSE 265: System and Network Administration Fri 11:30-1:00 UC Lounge Faculty Steering Committee Mtgs (occasional) Fri noon-1:00pm PL360 CSE Graduate Research Seminar (occasional) Fri 3:00-4:30 TBD Faculty Committee on Student Life (occasional)

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated Nov 2011 My web site on web caching and content distribution networks. Current graduate students: Na Dai, Ovidiu Dan, Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang, and Dawei Yin. Current visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ.) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ.)

Former graduate students: Xiaoguang Qi (PhD '12) Zhenzhen Xue (MS '10) Jian Wang (MS '09) Lan Nie (PhD '08) Shruti Bhandari (MS '08) YaoShuang Wang (MS '08) Baoning Wu (PhD '07) Vinay Goel (MS '06) Wei Zhang (MS '04) Kalyan C. Boggavarapu (MS '04) Kiran K. Komaravolu (MS '04) David B. Lewanda (MS '03) David G. Deschenes (MS '03)

To Reach Me

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.