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

During the 2013-2014 academic year, I am on sabbatical from Lehigh, and will be working in the Data Science group at Facebook.

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 Microsystems.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• WebQuality 2014: papers are due January 7.
• SIGIR 2014: paper abstracts due January 20.
• AAAI 2014: paper abstracts due January 31.

Service

• Associate editor for ACM Transactions on the Web
• Organizer or co-organizer of 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 SIGIR 2014, AAAI 2014, SIGIR 2013, AAAI 2011, WWW 2011, KDD 2010.
• Program committee membership in the past decade: 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, 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.
• Reviewer for multiple book publishers and many conferences and journals.

Office Hours (Packard Lab 514C) for Fall 2013

None -- on sabbatical.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Feb 4-8 2013	Rome, Italy	WSDM 2013 Conference
April 11-12 2013	Bethlehem, PA	Lehigh HPC Symposium
June 16-July 15 2013	USA	Siteseeing to Utah and back
Aug 31-Sep 5 15 2013	USA	Drive to CA
Nov 7-8 2013	Lehigh and NYC
Feb 24-28 2014	NYC	WSDM 2014 Conference

Calendar

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated Jul 2012 My web site on web caching and content distribution networks. Current graduate students: Ovidiu Dan (presently on leave), William West, and Zaihan Yang. Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ.) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ.)

Former graduate students: Dawei Yin (PhD '13) Liangjie Hong (PhD '13) Na Dai (PhD '13) Yufei Xia (MS '13) Jennifer Bayzick (MS '13) 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.