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, web mining, 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

• BigData 2017 papers are due August 20.
• WWW 2018 abstracts are due October 26.
• SIGIR 2018 abstracts are due January 22.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Jul 17-20 2016	Pisa, Italy	SIGIR 2016 Conference and Doctoral Consortium
Jul 21-22 2016	Bilbao, Spain	WebST 2016 Summer School
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

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

When Where What Mon 3:00-4:00pm PL 514C Student meetings Wed 9:00-10:00am PL514C Teleconference (occasional) Wed 2:00-2:30pm ATLSS Travel to Mountaintop (biweekly) Wed 2:30-3:30pm ATLSS PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly) Wed 3:30-4:00pm ATLSS Travel from Mountaintop (biweekly) Wed 4:00-5:00pm ATLSS Meeting Thu 1:00-1:30pm TBD Meeting Thu 1:30-2:00pm PL 514C Teleconference (biweekly) Thu 4:00-4:30pm PL 514C Teleconference (monthly)

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, 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.