I have worked with some excellent students including Xiang Wang (first at IBM Watson), Buyue Qian (now faculty at Xi'an Jiaotong University), Tom Kuo (now at Google) etc.
Research Experience
Current projects include: Human in the loop learning particularly active and transfer learning, matrix factorization formulations for block modeling, network discovery and other applications, constrained formulations of learning especially spectral methods. Several research assistantship slots are available.
Background
Professor in the computer science department working on AI, machine learning and data mining algorithm development. With domain expert collaborators I work on applications of my work to areas with societal impacts such as neuroscience, intelligent tutoring systems and social network.
Miscellany
Contact Details: The best way to contact me is via email at davidson [at] cs [dot] ucdavis [dot] edu. My office is at Room 2083, Academic Surge. See this link for directions.