Susan B. Davidson
Weiss Professor and Chair
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship - 2005, Hitachi Chair at INRIA - 2004, Lenore Rowe Williams Award - 2002, ACM Fellow - 2001, ACM Service Award - 1994, IEEE Computer Society Certi cate of Appreciation
Research Expertise: Databases
Susan's work lies in fundamental computer science as it is applied to biomedicine. Her research interests center around information modeling and management, database systems, distributed systems, and bioinformatics. Within bioinformatics, Susan's group focuses on models and systems for data integration and exchange, representation and management of incomplete and semi-structured information, provenance tracking and management, and scientific workflows. Susan has also been instrumental in establishing degree programs in bioinformatics and computational biology at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels.
Member of:- Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME)
- Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI)
- Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS)
Education:
PhD Computer Science 1982 - Princeton University
MSE Computer Science 1980 - Princeton University
MA. Computer Science 1980 - Princeton University
BA Mathematics 1978 - Cornell University
Recent Publications 
- A cascading mentoring pedagogy in a CS service learning course to broaden participation and perceptions, Kafai, Y.B. | Griffin, J. | Burke, Q. | Slattery, M. | Fields, D.A. | Powell, R.M. | Grab, M. | Davidson, S.B. | Sun, J.S., SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2013
- Using the crowd for top-k and group-by queries, Davidson, S.B. | Khanna, S. | Milo, T. | Roy, S., ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2013
- A propagation model for provenance views of public/private workflows, Davidson, S.B. | Milo, T. | Roy, S., ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2013
- Labeling workflow views with fine-grained dependencies, Bao, Z. | Davidson, S.B. | Milo, T., Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2012
- Hiding data and structure in workflow provenance, Davidson, S. | Bao, Z. | Roy, S., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011