Title
Assistant Professor
Education
PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech (2020)
Notable Awards
2022 Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award
Fall 2021: Teaching–Recognized for high student evaluation scores (∼100 faculty in College of Eng.) 2021
ASE 2021 Distinguished PC Member Award 2021
VIP Outstanding Team Mentor Award, Purdue TensorFlow Team 2021
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ESEC/FSE 2020 2020
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award, CS@VT 2020
Second place, Grand Finals of the ACM Graduate Student Research Competition 2020
First place, Graduate Student Research Competition, ESEC/FSE 2019 2019
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ASE 2019 2019
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ESEC/FSE 2018 2018
Microsoft Security Researcher Acknowledgments (Regex DoS) 2018
Pratt Fellowship, Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2017–2019
Davenport Fellowship, Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2019
Graduate Fellow, VT Academy for Global Engineering 2019–2020
IBM Significant Contributor Award (Node.js) 2018
IBM Poughkeepsie’s New hire of the month 2014
Frederica Clarkson Award 2012
Clarkson University’s Outstanding Senior (x2): Mathematics, Computer science 2012
Clarkson University Phalanx Commendable Leadership 2011
Biography
Professor Davis studies safe and secure software engineering for cyber- and cyber-physical systems. My research is grounded
in empirical measurements of the software engineering process, the engineered product, and its usage context.
