2026 Susan B. Davidson: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	51	5303	5154	2440	2356	204	11472

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - ACM Fellow For seminal contributions to distributed databases, real-time systems, heterogeneous database integration, warehousing, semi-structured data and for application of database research in bioinformatics.

Overview

Susan B. Davidson is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple areas within computer science, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence, information systems, and signal processing. Their work also spans computer networks and communications as well as management science and operations research.

The scientist's research topics include:

Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Data Management and Algorithms
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
Data Quality and Management

Recent papers contributed to by Susan B. Davidson include:

"Dynamic Gaussian Mixture based Deep Generative Model For Robust Forecasting on Sparse Multivariate Time Series" (2021), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"DeltaGrad: Rapid retraining of machine learning models" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"SubTab: Data Exploration with Informative Sub-Tables" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
"ShapGraph: An Holistic View of Explanations through Provenance Graphs and Shapley Values" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
"Credit distribution in relational scientific databases" (2022), published in Information Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Susan B. Davidson include:

Tova Milo
Kathy Razmadze
Amit Somech
Yinjun Wu
Jingchao Ni

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems

Susan B. Davidson has been recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2001 for contributions to distributed databases, real-time systems, heterogeneous database integration, warehousing, semi-structured data, and for applying database research in bioinformatics.

Best Publications

A query language and optimization techniques for unstructured data

Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Gerd Hillebrand;Dan Suciu

964
Citations
Provenance and scientific workflows: challenges and opportunities

Susan B. Davidson;Juliana Freire

931
Citations
Consistency in a partitioned network: a survey

Susan B. Davidson;Hector Garcia-Molina;Dale Skeen

827
Citations
Adding Structure to Unstructured Data

Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Mary F. Fernandez;Dan Suciu

595
Citations
Keys for XML

Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem S. Hara

503
Citations
Keys for XML

Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem Hara

335
Citations
Reasoning about keys for XML

Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem Hara

321
Citations
K2/Kleisli and GUS: experiments in integrated access to genomic data sources

S. B. Davidson;J. Crabtree;B. P. Brunk;J. Schug

314
Citations
Reasoning about Keys for XML

Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem S. Hara

312
Citations
Special Issue: The First Provenance Challenge

Luc Moreau;Bertram Ludäscher;Ilkay Altintas;Roger S. Barga

285
Citations
The First Provenance Challenge

Luc Moreau;Bertram Ludaescher;Ilkay Altintas;Roger S. Barga

285
Citations
Challenges in integrating biological data sources.

Susan B. Davidson;G. Christian Overton;Peter Buneman

281
Citations
Provenance in Scientific Workflow Systems

Susan B. Davidson;Sarah Cohen Boulakia;Anat Eyal;Bertram Ludäscher

244
Citations
Optimism and consistency in partitioned distributed database systems

Susan B. Davidson

225
Citations
Querying and Managing Provenance through User Views in Scientific Workflows

O. Biton;S. Cohen-Boulakia;S.B. Davidson;C.S. Hara

197
Citations
Putting lipstick on pig: enabling database-style workflow provenance

Yael Amsterdamer;Susan B. Davidson;Daniel Deutch;Tova Milo

190
Citations
A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources

Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Kyle Hart;G. Christian Overton

183
Citations
Theoretical Aspects of Schema Merging

Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Anthony Kosky

165
Citations
Using the crowd for top-k and group-by queries

Susan B. Davidson;Sanjeev Khanna;Tova Milo;Sudeepa Roy

163
Citations
An Efficient XPath Query Processor for XML Streams

Yi Chen;S.B. Davidson;Yifeng Zheng

160
Citations
DeltaGrad: Rapid retraining of machine learning models

Yinjun Wu;Edgar Dobriban;Susan Davidson

50
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tova Milo Tel Aviv University

Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania

Peter Buneman University of Edinburgh

Sanjeev Khanna University of Pennsylvania

Val Tannen University of Pennsylvania

Wenfei Fan University of Edinburgh

Wang-Chiew Tan Facebook (United States)

Juliana Freire New York University

Dan Suciu University of Washington

Shawn Bowers Gonzaga University

External Links

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