Susan B. Davidson

Susan B. Davidson
Nationality American
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater Cornell University
Princeton University
Doctoral advisor Hector Garcia-Molina
Known for Databases and Bioinformatics
Notable awards ACM Fellow (2001)
Website
www.cis.upenn.edu/~susan/home.html

Susan B. Davidson is an American computer scientist known for work in databases and bioinformatics. She is currently Weiss Professor of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania.[1] Her dissertation work on distributed databases included results on statistical and mathematical techniques for data resolution as well as mechanisms to avoid database conflicts.[2]

Davidson has also done research in bioinformatics, where her work (with collaborators) on data integration [3] was commercialized by GeneticXChange.[4] She is also currently serving on the board of the Computing Research Association.

Biography

Susan B. Davidson received a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1978. She received M.S.E. and Master of Arts degrees in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1980 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1982.

Davidson joined the faculty at University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Assistant Professor (1982), then served as an Assistant Professor (1983-1989), Associate Professor (1989-1998), and Professor (1998–present) in the Department of Computer and Information Science. From 2008-2013, she served as chair of the department. From 2000-2003, she also held a secondary appointment in Penn’s Genetics Department.

Awards

In 2001, Davidson was named an ACM Fellow.[5]

References

  1. ↑ UPenn Almanac | http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v51/n08/weiss.html
  2. ↑ Susan B. Davidson (1982). "An Optimistic Protocol for Partitioned Distributed Database Systems". Princeton University Doctoral Dissertation.
  3. ↑ Peter Buneman; Susan B. Davidson; Kyle Hart; G. Christian Overton & Limsoon Wong (1995). "A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources.". Proceedings of the 21th [sic] International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '95).
  4. ↑ geneticXchange Press Release | http://www.evaluategroup.com/Universal/View.aspx?type=Story&id=20509
  5. ↑ ACM Fellow page http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/davidson_2375392.cfm
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