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Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. Pronouns: He/him/his
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering |
NEW: Multiple post-doctoral research associate positions are available to support data science and engineering and catastrophe modeling.NEW: I'd also be happy to talk with potential domestic postdocs about the DARPA I2O PostDoc Fellowship (Topic 2: Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Discovery). Applications are Due Feb 1 and Mar 1.
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 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.
When | Where | What |
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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 |
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Dr. Davison in the news
My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2018 Current students: Recent postdocs:
Recent visitors:
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:
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) |
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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 versionThe 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 referencesThe 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)