Scholar
Brian D. Davison
Google Scholar ID: wk3PBXn5pgoJ
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,467
H-index
28
i10-index
65
Publications
20
Co-authors
97
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - NSF Faculty Early Career award winner
- - Research supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems
- - Published multiple papers
- - Involved in externally-funded projects such as PRAISys (NSF), Lehigh's Intelligent and Scalable Systems REU Site (NSF), Domain-Agnostic Dataset Search (NSF), Nanosensor Platform (NIH+NSF), etc.
- - Participated in interdisciplinary projects like Lehigh's Center for Catastrophe Modeling, Community Resilience: Perceptions Shaping Reality in Disaster Recovery, Efficient, Explainable and Robust Data Scientific Methods, etc.
Research Experience
- - Worked in the Core Data Science group at Facebook (now called Meta)
- - Research includes search, mining, recommendation, and classification problems in text, on datasets, on the Web, and in social networks
Education
- - B.S. in (computer) engineering from Bucknell University
- - M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University
Background
- - Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- - Co-founder of the interdisciplinary Master's Program in Data Science
- - Co-founder of Lehigh's Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience
- - Co-founder of the Master's Program in Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience
- - Member (former associate director) of the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems and Computation (I-DISC)
- - Founding Director of the undergraduate minor in data science
Miscellany
- - Pronouns: He/him/his
- - Regularly teaches data science, data mining, and web search engines
- - Office hours: Thursdays 1-2pm and Fridays 3-4pm in BC 215 and zoom or other times by request
- - Serves as Senior Associate Editor, Associate Editor, and Editor-in-chief for various journals and conferences
