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Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. Pronouns: He/him/his
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering |
Dr. Brian D. Davison is professor of computer science
and engineering,
associate director of the
Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation (I-DISC),
co-director of the interdisciplinary
Master's Program in Data Science,
and director of the
undergraduate minor in data science.
He regularly teaches data science and previously has taught courses on data mining, web search engines, networking, system
administration, and C and UNIX programming. In 2021 he
completed his term 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 (now called Meta).
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.
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When | Where | What |
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Jul 11-15 2021 | Online | SIGIR 2021 Conference |
Aug 9-14 2021 | Indianapolis, IN | Drum Core International 2021 Celebration |
Feb 21-25 2022 | Online | WSDM 2022 Conference |
Jul 18-22 2022 | Snowbird, UT | CRA Snowbird Conference |
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Dr. Davison in the news
My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2022 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:
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) |
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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.
-- Me (AFAIK)In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
-- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (attributed)