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

The department of computer science and engineering will have multiple tenure-track faculty openings, at all levels this fall, in a variety of areas. The first available is for the CSE department chair. We also have openings for tenure track faculty at all levels and in all areas. Contracted instructors, called Professors of Practice, are also needed. Send me email with questions!

We are happy to announce the opening of our Intelligent and Scalable Systems REU Site starting summer 2018.

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, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• WWW 2019 abstracts are due October 29.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Apr 23-27 2018	San Francisco, CA	OSIsoft PI World Conference
May 16-19 2018	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	PRAISys Annual Meeting
Jul 7-13 2018	Ann Arbor, MI	SIGIR 2018 Conference, DATA:SEARCH'18 Workshop
Jul 13-27 2018	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	Berkeley Workshop on Data Science Pedagogy and teaching an Intro to Data Science short course
Sep 26-28 2018	Barcelona, Spain	OSIsoft PI World EMEA
Feb 11-15 2019	Melbourne, Australia	WSDM 2019 Conference

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

When Where What Mon 10:10-11:00am RBC 184 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Mon 11:10-noon PA 118 Office Hour Mon 1:30-3pm BC 233 Research Group Meetings Mon 4:00-6:00 PL 466 College or University Faculty Meeting (occasional) Tue 9:20-10:35am PA 416 CSE/EMC/STS 252: Computers, the Internet and Society Tue 1-2pm PA 514 Research Group Meeting Tue 2-3pm BC 327 Research Group Meeting Tue 2:45-3:45pm ATLSS PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly) Tue 4:00-5:30pm ATLSS/BC 233 Research Meeting Wed 10:10-11:00am RBC 184 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 1:40-2:00pm BC 233 Faculty search meeting Wed 2:00-3:00pm BC 233 Research meeting Wed 4:00-5:00pm BC TBD Reading Group Meetings Thu 9:20-10:35am PA 416 CSE/EMC/STS 252: Computers, the Internet and Society Thu 10:45-11:45am PA 118 Office Hour Thu 12-1pm PA TBD Lunch Meeting 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 RBC 184 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Fri 12:20-1:20pm WH 451 Dataset Search Research Meeting (bi-weekly) Fri noon-1:00pm TBD CSE Graduate Research Seminar (occasional) Fri 2:00-3:00pm BC 233 Research meeting (bi-weekly)

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2018 Current postdocs: Wenjuan Sun Current students: Derrik Bell, Zhiyu Chen, Ovidiu Dan, Sicong Kuang, Dan Luo, dePaul Miller, and Hua Shen. Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ., 2011-2012) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ., Spring 2012) Former undergraduate students: Yang Yi (2018) Baiyu Xiang (2017-2018) Faith Komlo (2016-2017) Elizabeth Koshelev (Brandeis University, summer of 2017) Marissa Como (Providence College, summer of 2015)

Former graduate students: Zaihan Yang (PhD '14) William West (MS '14) Dawei Yin (PhD '13) Liangjie Hong (PhD '13) Na Dai (PhD '13) Yufei Xia (MS '13) Jennifer Bayzick Tannenbaum (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.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
-- Jan L. A. van de Sepscheut (attributed)