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Brian D. Davison, Ph.D.Department of Computer Science and EngineeringCollege of Engineering and Applied Science Lehigh University |
Brian D. Davison is an associate professor of computer science and engineering and teaches courses on web search engines, networking, system administration, C and UNIX programming. He heads the Web Understanding, Modeling, and Evaluation (WUME) laboratory. Dr. Davison earned his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bucknell University and has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University. His research is in web search and mining, focusing on the integration of text and link analysis applied to search and classification problems on the Web. Dr. Davison's interests additionally include information retrieval, social networking, data mining, network infrastructure for the WWW, and the analysis of trust and authority in information networks. He is a 2006 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award winner and one of twelve Microsoft Live Labs "Accelerating Search" award recipients. Dr. Davison's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Sun.
Teaching
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Research |
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| Jul 20-23 2009 | Boston | SIGIR 2009 Conference |
| Sep 25-26 2009 | NYU - NYC | Workshop on Information in Networks |
| Oct 5-6 2009 | Lehigh University | Computational Engineering and Science/HPC Workshop |
| Nov 2-6 2009 | Hong Kong | CIKM 2009 Conference |
| Feb 4-6 2010 | New York City | WSDM 2010 Conference |
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Dr. Davison in the news
My web site on web caching and content distribution networks. Current graduate students:
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Former graduate students:
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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M.N.
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