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

Dr. Brian D. Davison is an associate professor of computer science and engineering and teaches courses on data science, data mining, web search engines, web mining, networking, system administration, and C and UNIX programming. He heads Lehigh's Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation (WUME) laboratory and serves as joint 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 web search and mining, focusing on the integration of text and link analysis applied to search, recommendation and classification problems on the Web and 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, and Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• WWW 2017 abstracts are due October 19.
• SIGIR 2017 abstracts are due January 17.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Feb 22-25 2016	San Francisco, CA	WSDM 2016 Conference
Jul 17-20 2016	Pisa, Italy	SIGIR 2016 Conference and Doctoral Consortium
Jul 21-22 2016	Bilbao, Spain	WebST 2016 Summer School
Jan 12-13 2017	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	PRAISys Annual Meeting

Fall 2016 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 10:00-11:00am PL 514C Student meeting Mon 11:10-noon ST 280 CSE 198: Intro to Data Science Mon 1:10-2:00pm EWFM 379 Research Computing Steering Com. (2nd Monday) Mon 1:30-2:00pm ATLSS Travel to Mountaintop (biweekly) Mon 2:00-3:00pm TBD CSE Committee Meeting (biweekly) Mon 2:00-3:00pm ATLSS PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly) Mon 3:00-3:30pm ATLSS Travel from Mountaintop (biweekly) Mon 4:00-6:00 PL 466 College or University Faculty Meeting (occasional) Tue 9:20-10:35am PL 216 CSE 406: Research Methods Tue 11:10-noon PL 514C Office Hour Tue 3:00-4:00pm PL 514C Student meeting Tue 4:00-5:00pm TBD CSE Committee Meeting (biweekly) Wed 9:00-10:00am PL514C Teleconference (biweekly) Wed 10:10-11:00am PL 514C Office Hour Wed 11:10-noon ST 280 CSE 198: Intro to Data Science Wed 1:30-2:30pm PL514C Meet with students Wed 3:30-4:00pm PL514C Meet with students Wed 4:00-5:00pm PL 514C Meeting Thu 9:20-10:35am PL 216 CSE 406: Research Methods Thu 1:00-1:30pm TBD Meeting Thu 1:30-2:00pm PL 514C Teleconference (biweekly) Thu 3:00-4:00pm PL 514C Student meeting Thu 4:00-4:30pm PL 514C Teleconference (monthly) Fri 11:10-noon ST 280 CSE 198: Intro to Data Science Fri noon-1:00pm TBD CSE Graduate Research Seminar (occasional) Fri 1:00-1:30pm PL 514C Meeting Fri 1:30-2:00pm PL514C Meet with students Fri 2:00-3:00pm PL 216 CSE Committee Meeting (biweekly)

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated Apr 2016 Current postdocs: Wenjuan Sun Current graduate students: Zhiyu Chen, Ovidiu Dan, and Sicong Kuang. Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ.) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ.) Former undergraduate students: Marissa Como (Providence College)

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.