At the School of Information Technologies, the University of Sydney, Davis was instrumental in launching the Knowledge Discovery and Management Research Group and starting the Master of Information Technology Management (MITM) course and revising the Information Systems major at the undergraduate level. He has served as the Associate Dean (International) in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney from 2010 to 2013 and as Associate Head of School (of Information Technologies) from 2002 to 2007. He is also the theme leader for Service Computing at the Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing at the University of Sydney.