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

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. in Computer Engineering 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. He is a 2006 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award winner and one of twelve Microsoft Live Labs "Accelerating Search" award recipients. Dr. Davison's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Sun.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• ICWSM 2010: Papers are due January 8.

Service

• Organizer or co-organizer of WSDM 2010, AIRWeb 2007, ECML/PKDD 2007 GraphLab Workshop, AIRWeb 2006, AIRWeb 2005, WCW 2003.
• Program committee member of 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, 3rd Web Dynamics Workshop (2004), Behavior-based UI Customization Workshop (2004), ICML 2003, PAPA 2002.
• Advisor to Lehigh chapters of the ACM and Tau Beta Pi.
• Reviewer for multiple book publishers and many conferences and journals.

Office Hours (Packard Lab 380) for Fall 2009

Wednesday 2-3pm, Friday 10-11am, and by appointment.

Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Jul 20-23 2009	Boston	SIGIR 2009 Conference
Sep 25-26 2009	NYU - NYC	Workshop on Information in Networks
Oct 5-6 2009	Lehigh University	Computational Engineering and Science/HPC Workshop
Nov 2-6 2009	Hong Kong	CIKM 2009 Conference
Feb 4-6 2010	New York City	WSDM 2010 Conference

Schedule + Calendar, Fall 2009

When Where What Mon 11:10-noon PL360 CSE 342: Fundamentals of Internetworking Mon noon-1pm PL3XX CSE Dept. Faculty Meeting (occasional) Mon 3:00-4:00 PL254D Meet with Prof. Nagel Mon 4:10-6:00pm PL466 College or University Faculty Meeting (occasional) Tue 11-noon FM??? HPC Steering Committee Meeting (occasional) Wed 11:10-noon PL360 CSE 342: Fundamentals of Internetworking Wed noon-1:00 Asa Packer Lunch group Wed 2:10-3:00pm PL380 Office Hour in Packard 380 Wed 3:00-5:00pm PL607 WUME Research Group meeting Thu 9:10-10:30 MG223 Student Life Meeting (occasional) Thu 10:45-1:00pm PL122 CSE 342 Lab Thu 1pm-2:00pm ? Lunch Thu 2:30-3:00pm PL380 Meet with student Fri 10:10-11:00am PL380 Office Hour in Packard 380 Fri 11:10-noon PL360 CSE 342: Fundamentals of Internetworking Fri noon-1:00pm PL??? CSE Graduate Research Seminar

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. My web site on web caching and content distribution networks. Current graduate students: Na Dai, Ovidiu Dan, Liangjie Hong, Xiaoguang Qi, Zhenzhen Xue, Zaihan Yang, and Dawei Yin.

Former graduate students: 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.