Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University
Allentown, Pennsylvania Area
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University
Allentown, Pennsylvania Area
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Dr. Brian Davison is an associate professor of computer science and engineering and teaches courses on web search engines, web mining, 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 includes 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, data mining, social networks, 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.
WWW search engines, search engine spam, web link analysis, web page classification, information retrieval, text and data mining, machine learning, social computing, social networking