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

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering expects to have one or more tenure-track faculty openings to start Fall 2021. Feel free to reach out if you may be interested.

NEW: Multiple post-doctoral research associate positions are available to support data science and engineering, catastrophe modeling and probalistic analyses.

Dr. Brian D. Davison is an associate professor of computer science and engineering, associate director of the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation (I-DISC), 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. During his most recent sabbatical, 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

• SIGIR 2021 abstracts are due February 2.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Oct 24-26 2019	University of Stavanger, Norway	Examiner for a doctoral dissertation
Feb 3-7 2020	Houston, TX	WSDM 2020 Conference
Mar 15-present	Bethlehem, PA	Online with Zoom for the pandemic

Fall 2020 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 9:30-10:30pm Online Meeting Mon 1:30-2:30pm Online Office Hour Mon 2:30-3:30pm Online IRI Directors Meeting (biweekly) Mon 3:30-4:30pm Online Research meeting Tue 12:15-1:15pm Online CSE Dept Mtg (biweekly) Tue 12-1pm Online Meeting (biweekly) Tue 2-3pm Online I-DISC Leadership (biweekly) Wed 10:30-11am Online Research meeting Wed 11-noon Online Research Group Meeting Wed 1:30-2:30pm Online CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 2:30-3pm Online Meeting (occasional) Wed 4-5pm Online Meeting Thu 1-2pm Online Office Hour Thu 4:00-5:00pm Online Research Teleconference Fri 10-noon Online College of Education Faculty Meeting (once a month) Fri 10-11am Online Community Resilience Research Meeting Fri 11-noon Online Dataset Search Research Meeting (biweekly) Fri noon-1pm Online Research meeting (biweekly)

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2018 Current students: Eashan Adhikarla, Zhiyu Chen, Dan Luo, and Youshan 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: 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.

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