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

Dr. Brian D. Davison is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor and Co-founder of the interdisciplinary Master's Program in Data Science, Co-founder of Lehigh's Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience and the Master's Program in Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience, member (former associate director) of the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation (I-DISC), and was Founding Director of the undergraduate minor in data science. He regularly teaches data science and previously has taught courses on data mining, web search engines, and more. During his most recent sabbatical, he worked in the Core Data Science group at Facebook (now called Meta). Dr. Davison earned his B.S. in (computer) engineering 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 National Institutes of Health (NIH), 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 they learn 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.

Fall 2024 Schedule (but see Google Calendar at right for specific days)

When Where What Mon 10:45-11:35am RB 241 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Mon 1:30-2pm Online Meeting Mon 3:30-5:30pm PA 508 Rossin College Leadership Mtg (every other week) Tue 12-1:30pm BC 307 or PA 118 CSE Faculty Meeting (every other week) Tue 4:45-5:45pm BIB 102 Department Chairs Exec Meeting (Monthly) Wed 8-9:30am Online Off-campus meeting (occasional) Wed 10:45-11:35am RB 241 CSE 160: Intro to Data Science Wed 3-4pm BC 215 Graduate Student Research Meetings Thu 8-9:30am Online Off-campus meeting (occasional) Thu 3-4pm Online CatModeling Mtg (every other week) Thu 4-5pm BC 215 Associate Chair Meeting Fri 8-10am Varies Department Chairs Meeting (Monthly) Fri 9:50-11:05am BC 210 CSE 160 Lab (occasionally) Fri 12:10-1:25pm Varies Rossin College Faculty Meeting (Monthly) Fri 12:40-1:55pm BC 210 CSE 160 Lab (occasionally) Fri 2-3pm BC 215 Graduate Student Research Meetings Fri 4-5pm HST 272 Research Meeting

Other items of interest

Dr. Davison in the news My advice to Lehigh students. Updated January 2022 Current students: Eashan Adhikarla, Xuehan Chen, Garrik Hoyt, Jiaxin Liu, and Yifan Zhang. Recent postdocs: Dr. 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: Dan Luo (PhD '25) Zhiyu Chen (PhD '22) 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)