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 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 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 2018 abstracts are due October 26.
• SIGIR 2018 abstracts are due January 22.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Jan 11-13 2017	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	PRAISys Annual Meeting
Mar 12-15 2017	San Francisco, CA	Lehigh@NASDAQ Center Meeting
Mar 29-31 2017	Redmond, WA	SIGIR 2017 PC Meeting
Jun 28-29 2017	Livermore, CA	Visit Lawrence Livermore National Lab, OSIsoft
Sep 15 2017	Lehigh Univ.	Impact Symposium: Privacy and Security in the Era of Big Data

Fall 2017 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 10:10-11:00am ST 101 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Mon 11:30-12:00pm TBD Lunch Mon 12:00-12:30pm TBD Meeting Mon 12:30-1:00pm ATLSS Travel to Mountaintop (biweekly) Mon 1:00-2:00pm ATLSS PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly) Mon 2:00-2:15pm ATLSS Travel from Mountaintop (biweekly) Mon 3:00-4:00pm PL 514C Grad Student meetings 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 10:45-11:00am PL 514C Meeting Tue 11:10-noon PL 514C Office Hour Tue 1:10-2:25pm WH 271 Sit in on class Tue 2:30-3:00pm PL 514C Meet with Senior Design students Wed 10:10-11:00am ST 101 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 11:10-noon PL 514C Office Hour Wed 1:00-2:00pm PL 380 Student meeting Wed 3:00-3:30pm PL 514C Meet with CSE160 graders Wed 3:30-4:00pm ATLSS Travel to Mountaintop Wed 4:00-5:00pm ATLSS Meeting Thu 9:20-10:35am PL 216 CSE 406: Research Methods Thu 11:00-12:00pm MO 401 Committee Meeting Thu noon-1:00pm PL 216 CSE Dept. Faculty Meeting (occasional) Thu 1:10-2:25pm WH 271 Sit in on class Thu 3:00-4:00pm PL 216 Research Group meeting (bi-weekly) Thu 4:00-4:30pm PL 514C Teleconference (monthly) Fri 10:10-11:00am ST 101 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Fri 11:10-noon PL 514C Grad Student meetings Fri noon-1:00pm PL 360 CSE Graduate Research Seminar (occasional) Fri 1:00-2:30pm PL 514C Student meetings Fri 2:00-3:00pm EWFM 379 Research Computing Steering Com.

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated August 2017 Current postdocs: Wenjuan Sun Current lab members: Zhiyu Chen, Ovidiu Dan, Faith Komlo, Sicong Kuang, Dan Luo, and Baiyu Xiang. Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ., 2011-2012) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ., Spring 2012) Former undergraduate students: Marissa Como (Providence College, summer of 2015)

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.