Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. Pronouns: He/him/his Department of Computer Science and Engineering P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science Lehigh University

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has multiple tenure-track faculty openings at junior and senior levels. Contracted instructors, called Professors of Practice, are also needed.

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 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 search, mining, recommendation and classification problems in text, 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.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Feb 11-15 2019	Melbourne, Australia	WSDM 2019 Conference
Mar 10-13 2019	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	Teaching an Intro to Data Science short course
Oct 24-26 2019	University of Stavanger, Norway	Examiner for a doctoral dissertation
January 2020	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	Lehigh Silicon Valley
February 2020	Houston, TX	WSDM 2020 Conference
April 29-May 1 2020	Chicago, IL	NSF CISE REU PI Meeting

Fall 2019 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 11:00-11:30am BC 233 Student project meeting Mon 11:30-noon BC 233 Capstone project meeting Mon 1:35-2:25pm Neville 2 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Mon 3:00-4:15pm Drown 210 CSE/EMC/STS 252: Computers, the Internet and Society Mon 4:20-5:15 Linderman Rotunda Office Hour Tue 11:00-noon TBD Research meeting (biweekly) Tue 12:15-1:15pm BC ? CSE Dept Mtg (Occasional) Tue 1:15-2pm BC 233 Research meeting Tue 2-3pm BC 233 Research meeting Tue 3-4pm BC 233 Research meeting Wed 11:30-12:30pm ATLSS PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly) Wed 11:30-12:30pm BC 233 Research Meeting (biweekly) Wed 1:35-2:25pm Neville 2 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 3:00-4:15pm Drown 210 CSE/EMC/STS 252: Computers, the Internet and Society Thu 12:15-1:15pm BC ? CSE Dept Mtg (Occasional) Thu 1:15-2:15pm BC 324 Reading Group Meeting (biweekly) Thu 2:30-3:00pm BC 233 Research Meeting Thu 3:00-4:00pm Online Research Teleconference Fri 9:30-10:30am BC 324 Research Group Meeting Fri 10:30-11:00am BC 233 Meet with Capstone Project students Fri 11-noon BC 324 Dataset Search Research Meeting (bi-weekly) Fri 1:35-2:25pm Neville 2 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Fri 2:30-3:30 PA 118 Office Hour

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2018 Current postdocs: Wenjuan Sun Current students: Zhiyu Chen, Sicong Kuang, Dan Luo, Mathangi Sundar, and Youshan Zhang. Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ., 2011-2012) 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)

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.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
-- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (attributed)