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 professor of computer science and engineering, associate director of the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation (I-DISC), 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. He heads Lehigh's Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation (WUME) laboratory and just 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. 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.

Dr. Davison's CV is also available.

Special opportunity for colleagues in industry, government, etc.

Would you be interested in co-advising a doctoral student (who you approve) so that she or he learns to think in terms of research in your setting, and not just academia? Lehigh has a new program called P3 (Pasteur Partners PhD) that enables such an arrangement with me or my faculty colleagues in any STEM field, focusing on use-inspired research.

Open CFPs with which I am involved

• TheWebConf 2022 abstracts are due October 14.
• Special Issue/Topic in Data Mining and Management abstracts are due December 10.

Recent and Upcoming Travel Plans

When	Where	What
Mar 8-12 2021	Online	WSDM 2021 Conference
Mar 2020-May 2021	Bethlehem, PA	Online with Zoom for the pandemic
Jul 11-15 2021	Online	SIGIR 2021 Conference
Aug 9-14 2021	Indianapolis, IN	Drum Core International 2021 Celebration

Fall 2021 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 10-11am Online Office Hours Mon 11-noon Online I-DISC Leadership (biweekly) Mon noon-1pm Online Community Resilience Research Meeting (biweekly) Mon 1:35-2:50pm MG 480 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Mon 3:30-4:30pm Online IRI Directors Meeting (biweekly) Tue 12:15-1:15pm BC 307/Online CSE Dept meeting or talk Tue 3-4pm Online Research meeting (biweekly) Tue 4:30-5:30pm BC307/Online CSE Dept meeting or talk Wed 8-9:30am Online Off-campus meeting (occasional) Wed 9-10:30am Online Research Mtg Wed 10-11am Online Meeting Wed 1:35-2:50pm PA 258 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 4-5pm Online Meeting Thu 8-9:30am Online Off-campus meeting (occasional) Thu 10-11am Online CSE160 Office Hours Thu 4-5pm Online Data Science Curriculum meeting Fri 10:30-11:30am Online Dataset Search Research Mtg (biweekly) Fri 2-4pm Online Research Mtg

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated February 2021 Current students: Eashan Adhikarla, Zhiyu Chen, and Dan Luo. Recent postdocs: Wenjuan Sun (2016-2020) Recent visitors: Dr. Yan Fu (Beijing Normal Univ., 2011-2012) Dr. Xiannong Meng (Bucknell Univ., Spring 2012) Former undergraduate students: Mathangi Sundar (BITS-Pilani, summer and fall 2019) 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: Youshan Zhang (PhD '21) 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)

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.
-- Me (AFAIK)

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