Susan B. Davidson

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. Her dissertation work on distributed databases included results on statistical and mathematical techniques for data resolution as well as mechanisms to avoid database conflicts. Davidson has also done research in bioinformatics, where her work (with collaborators) on data integrationwas commercialized by GeneticXChange. She is also currently serving on the board of the Computing Research Association.

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.

In 2001, Davidson

was named an ACM Fellow.