Susan B. Davidson
Susan B. Davidson | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Cornell University Princeton University |
Known for | Databases, Bioinformatics |
Awards |
ACM Fellow (2001) CorrFRSE (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Doctoral advisor | Hector Garcia-Molina |
Website |
www |
Susan B. Davidson CorrFRSE is an American computer scientist known for work in databases and bioinformatics. She is 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 also serves on the board of the Computing Research Association.
Biography
In 1978 Davidson graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University. 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 the University of Pennsylvania as Visiting Assistant Professor (1982), then took up the role of Assistant Professor (1983-1989), Associate Professor (1989-1998), and Professor (1998–present) in the University' Department of Computer and Information Science. From 2008-2013, she was chair of the department. From 2000-2003, she also held a secondary appointment in the university's Genetics Department.
Awards
In 2001 Davidson became a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).[5] She was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015.[6]
References
- ↑ UPenn Almanac | http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v51/n08/weiss.html
- ↑ Susan B. Davidson (1982). "An Optimistic Protocol for Partitioned Distributed Database Systems". Princeton University Doctoral Dissertation.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ geneticXchange Press Release | http://www.evaluategroup.com/Universal/View.aspx?type=Story&id=20509
- ↑ ACM Fellow page http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/davidson_2375392.cfm
- ↑ "Professor Susan Bridget Davidson CorrFRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
External links
- Official website Davidson's webpage at University of Pennsylvania