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

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.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• CIKM 2019 abstracts are due May 15.
• BigData 2019 papers are due August 19.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Jul 7-13 2018	Ann Arbor, MI	SIGIR 2018 Conference, DATA:SEARCH'18 Workshop
Jul 13-27 2018	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	Berkeley Workshop on Data Science Pedagogy and teaching an Intro to Data Science short course
Sep 26-28 2018	Barcelona, Spain	OSIsoft PI World EMEA
Jan 13-16 2019	San Francisco Bay Area, CA	Lehigh Silicon Valley
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

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

When Where What Mon 11:00-noon Online Research Group Meeting Mon 1:10-2:00pm Neville 2 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Mon 2:30-3:30pm BC 327 Research Group Meeting Mon 4:00-6:00 PL 466 College or University Faculty Meeting (occasional) Tue 9-10am ATLSS PRAISys Research Meeting (biweekly) Tue 11-noon BC 324 Reading Group Meetings Tue 1:30-3:00pm BC 233 Research Meeting Tue 3-4pm BC 233 Research meeting Wed 9:30-10am BC 233 Student Meeting Wed 10-11am BC 233 Student Meeting Wed 1:10-2:00pm Neville 2 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 2:30-3:30 BC 233 Office Hour Thu 11-noon PA TBD Meeting Thu 1:00-2pm BC 233 Student Meeting Thu 3:00-3:30pm BC 233 Student Meeting Thu 3:30-4:00pm BC 233 Teleconference (bi-weekly) Fri 9:30-11am BC 233 Research Group Meetings Fri 11-noon TBD Dataset Search Research Meeting (bi-weekly) Fri noon-1:00pm TBD CSE Graduate Research Seminar (occasional) Fri 1:10-2:00pm Neville 2 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Fri 2:30-3:30 BC 233 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: Derrik Bell, Zhiyu Chen, Ovidiu Dan, Sicong Kuang, Dan Luo, dePaul Miller, Hua Shen, 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: 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)