Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. Pronouns: He/him/his Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science Lehigh University

Dr. Brian D. Davison is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor and Co-founder of the interdisciplinary Master's Program in Data Science, Co-founder of Lehigh's Center for Catastrophe Modeling, member (former associate director) of the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation (I-DISC), and was Founding Director of the undergraduate minor in data science. He regularly teaches data science and previously has taught courses on data mining, web search engines, and more. During his most recent sabbatical, he worked in the Core Data Science group at Facebook (now called Meta). Dr. Davison earned his B.S. in (computer) engineering 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 datasets, 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.

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Postdoc openings in the Catastrophe Modeling Center @ Lehigh

The Catastrophe Modeling Center at Lehigh University is seeking to fill multiple positions for postdoctoral research associates in the general fields of Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience. Successful candidates may have a background in Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Social Sciences, Computer Science, Data Science, Population Health or any other discipline connected to the broad fields of fields of Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience. For details and the application form, please see go.lehigh.edu/postdoc. For those with more experience, we are also considering applications for a research scientist.

Special opportunity for colleagues in industry, government, etc.

Would you be interested in co-advising a doctoral student (who you approve) so that they learn to think in terms of research in your setting, and not just academia? Lehigh has a new program called P3 (Pasteur Partners PhD) that enables such an arrangement with me or my faculty colleagues in any STEM field, focusing on use-inspired research.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• SIGIR 2023 abstracts for short papers are due February 14.

Spring 2023 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 10-11am Online Office Hours (you may have to wait) Mon 1:35-2:25pm Packard 416 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Lecture Mon 3-5pm PA 303 Rossin College Leadership Mtg (every other week) Tue 11-11:30am Online Meeting Tue 12-1:30pm BC 307 or PA 118 CSE Faculty Meeting (every other week) Tue 1:30-2:30pm Online CatModeling Mtg Wed 8-9:30am Online Off-campus meeting (occasional) Wed 10-11am Online Associate Chair Meeting Wed 1:35-2:25pm Packard 416 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Lecture Wed 2:30-3:30pm Packard 118 Office Hours (you may have to wait) Thu 8-9:30am Online Off-campus meeting (occasional) Thu 8:25-9:40am BC 210 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Lab Thu 12-12:30pm BC 215 CSE TalkWalk Thu 2:05-3:20pm BC 210 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Lab Thu 4-5pm Online PIPP Research Group Mtg (every other week) Fri 8-10am Varies Department Chairs Meeting (Monthly) Fri 11-noon BC 215 Student Research Meetings Fri 12:10-1:25pm Varies Rossin College Faculty Meeting (Monthly) Fri 2-3:30pm HST 040 PIPP Research Meeting (every other week)

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2022 Current students: Eashan Adhikarla, Dan Luo, and Yifan Zhang. Recent postdocs: Wenjuan Sun (2016-2020) Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ., 2011-2012) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ., Spring 2012) Former undergraduate students: Mathangi Sundar (BITS-Pilani, summer and fall 2019) 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: Zhiyu Chen (PhD '22) Youshan Zhang (PhD '21) Sicong Kuang (PhD '20) Ovidiu Dan (PhD '19) 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.
-- Me (AFAIK)

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