About Geoff Davis
Geoff Davis is a Senior Quantitative Analyst in the User Experience Research Group at Google.
Davis earned his PhD in applied mathematics from New York University's Courant Institute in 1994, and has since employed his doctoral education in a variety of capacities. He has been an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department at Dartmouth College, the Texas Instruments Visiting Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University, a researcher in the Signal Processing Group at Microsoft Research, a developer at San Francisco-based startup company 4charity, a Visiting Scholar at Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and a Werthheim Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School
Davis's mathematical research centered around representations of information, with a particular focus on wavelets and related transforms. His work on image coding led to an an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship and the 2000 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award.
Davis has had a longstanding interest in science education and policy issues. In 1997 he created the phds.org web site, which currently receives around 80,000 unique visitors each month. He later ran the National Graduate School Survey with NAPGS and the Sigma Xi Postdoc Survey. He is currently a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Science and Engineering Workforce Project. He and co-blogger Peter Fiske have collaborated on a number of interesting science policy projects, this blog being the latest.
