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"An open mind, willingness to learn, and willingness to put in some work."
New CDS Assistant Professor Pratyusha Sharma (@pratyusha_PS) on the mindset she hopes students bring to her class, and why shortcuts don't pay off.
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CDS undergrads shared how they secured summer internships and what they learned along the way at our annual “I Know What You Did Last Summer” panel.
Their internships took them to University of Tuebingen, EY Foundry, ECESIS Investment, and JP Morgan.
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How do students get started in research?
CDS Prof Juliana Freire (@jfreirenet), CDS Faculty Fellow Mateo Dulce Rubio, @cskokgibbs, @dramebaazguy, and other researchers at several career stages joined a Research 101 panel on finding opportunities and building research experience.
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The 2026 VLDB Women in Database Research Award went to CDS Prof Juliana Freire (@jfreirenet) for her research on data provenance and reproducibility and her leadership in the data management community.
Congratulations, Juliana!
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Volume 2 of the CDS Magazine is out!
Put together by the CDS Graduate Student Community-Building Group, the new issue features student projects, essays, photography, community memories, CDS clubs, and more.
Read Volume 2: drive.google.com/file/d/13kF…
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Fall 2027 applications for our MS and PhD programs are now open!
Join us online for an upcoming Admissions Information Session to learn more about our graduate programs and the admissions process.
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@NYU_Courant's Buckmaster and Anthropic's Alpöge used LLMs to produce Lean-checked proofs that 3D Euler can blow up in finite time, bearing on a Millennium Prize Problem.
@KempeLab called it in April on @ziv_ravid’s podcast: math would “fall” like Go did
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The CILVR Seminar opened its fall series with CDS founding director Yann LeCun (@ylecun), who gave a talk titled “World Models: Enabling the Next AI Revolution.”
@CILVRatNYU talks continue most Wednesdays at 2pm at CDS.
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From @AptemizInc to @sesame to @Accenture Song, CDS alumni returned to campus to give undergrads a look at early careers in data science.
The panel featured Data Science Analyst Abigail Paguio, Product Engineer Anand Tyagi, & Experience Strategy Specialist Caolin Donnelly.
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The CDS Alumni Council’s industry skills series continues Oct. 1 with a panel on data science careers in Finance + FinTech.
📍 NYU CDS, 60 Fifth Ave.
🕠 5:30–7:30 PM
CDS alumni + students: check your email for registration.
Photos from September’s packed media panel!
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Copying a crowd’s results isn’t the same as reproducing how it behaves.
CDS PhD student Grégoire Lambrecht and NYU Shanghai’s Mathieu Laurière built the first way to learn from a crowd of agents when one shock hits them all at once.
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What does a data scientist actually do?
Last week, CDS students heard answers from:
⭐️ Haftan Eckholdt of Thinking Studios
⭐️ Sarath Kareti of CNN
⭐️ Alexandra Przysucha of EY
⭐️ James Kopanidis of the NBPA
The panel was moderated by CDS-associated Prof @VasantDhar.
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"Know the rules in order to break the rules."
CDS Clinical Assistant Professor Samuel Deng on the mindset students should bring to his machine learning courses, and why the "outdated" material still belongs on the syllabus.
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Congrats to the seven NYU scholars, who joined CDS this fall under the Data Science Research Program for Undergraduate Students. They're working with mentors including CDS faculty Grace Lindsay and Mengye Ren (@mengyer).
More on the program here: cds.nyu.edu/research-program…
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"By the fifth question, you won't even care anymore."
CDS-affiliated Professor Todd Gureckis (@todd_gureckis) on why students should ask questions in class, even when it feels scary the first time.
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We're back! 🎉
CDS majors packed the 7th floor Open Space last week for our Welcome Back sessions.
Coming up this year: career and research opportunities, Agentic AI and SQL workshops, alumni panels, and Pizza Chats.
Welcome back, everyone!
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The employer registration deadline for the CDS Fall 2026 Graduate Career Fair is tomorrow! Register now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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The deadline to register for the CDS Fall 2026 Graduate Career Fair is this Friday! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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New semester, new data science research! Tal Linzen (@tallinzen) analyzes what makes some sentences difficult to read, Emily Black (@em__black) reveals how AI is shaping hiring decisions, and more on the first CDS Research Feature of the school year. t.e2ma.net/webview/9d6uai/04…
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Two days of orientation down, and the new MS and PhD students at CDS have met the faculty, quizzed the alumni, learned what makes a good community member, and been turned loose on a scavenger hunt.
Welcome to the semester!
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We welcomed our incoming Data Science MS & PhD students at our pre-orientation social, giving everyone a chance to meet, connect, and get to know their new community before the start of the semester.
From conversations to board games, it was a fun day of making new connections.
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Want to spend the next few years doing data science in New York City?
The Fall 2027 applications for the CDS MS and PhD programs open in late September.
In the meantime, learn more here:
MS info: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-data-…
PhD info: cds.nyu.edu/phd-program-over…
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CDS will host its Fall 2026 Graduate Career Fair on September 22, 2026, from 11:30AM-2:30PM ET. This in-person event offers employers a prime opportunity to connect with our talented data science graduate students and recent alumni.
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Language models can predict how we read a sentence forward, but not why our eyes jump back when it trips us up.
New from NYU’s William Timkey, CDS Assoc Prof @tallinzen & UMass’s Brian Dillon.
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Language models can predict how we read a sentence forward, but not why our eyes jump back when it trips us up.
New from NYU’s William Timkey, CDS Assoc Prof @tallinzen & UMass’s Brian Dillon.
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The DOE has selected the first round of projects for its Genesis Mission, a national push to speed up scientific discovery with AI.
Two CDS faculty are on board:
📷️ Mengye Ren (@mengyer) on MARS
📷️ Juliana Freire (@jfreirenet) on DAISY
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Attention companies, nonprofits, and research labs! THIS SUNDAY, AUG 16 is the CDS Capstone Project proposal deadline!
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We each carry 100s of copies of ribosome genes, yet almost no disease is linked to mutations in them. Then-MS students at CDS Xufan Ma, Fiona Chow & Buz Galbraith found why: harmful ones survive only in a few copies, which disease studies filter out.
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Welcome and congratulations to our two 2026 CDS Pathbreaker Scholarship recipients, Aigerim (Aileen) Adilet and Sherry Scott Bianco.
Aileen has built AI for earlier medical diagnosis, while Sherry works on accessible tools for blind and visually impaired people.
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Starting your master’s at CDS this fall?
Incoming CDS Professor of Psychology and Data Science Todd Gureckis (@todd_gureckis) suggests browsing the CDS website and faculty lab pages over the summer to find mentors and projects that fit your interests.
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Attention companies, nonprofits, and research labs! The deadline to submit a proposal for the CDS Capstone Project is fast approaching – the deadline is Aug 16. cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-data-…
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Even with AI tools, job recruiters believe they make the hiring call.
But a new CDS/Tandon study finds those AI tools have a much bigger impact than their users realize.
By CDS’ @em__black, Tandon’s @Rosie_Bellini, and Sajel Surati.
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This week NYU is hosting nearly 1,000 scientists working on brains, minds, and machines for CCN 2026, the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference.
Come by: 2026.ccneuro.org/
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Starting a CDS master’s this fall?
CDS Assoc. Prof. Greg Durrett (@gregd_nlp) recommends a summer spent on the fundamentals:
✅ linear algebra
✅calculus
✅probability
✅statistics
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Pancreatic cancer is often diagnosed late. Too late. Information that could help researchers to better understand the early signs is already sitting in radiology reports. CDS PhD student @erasromani's recent work discusses the use of LLMs to extract this information.
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CDS grad students and alumni gathered at a bar near CDS recently for a summer happy hour.
Incoming students met returning students and alumni over food and drinks ahead of the fall semester.
Thanks to everyone who came out.
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Starting your master’s at CDS this fall?
CDS Dir. Graduate Studies for PhD Program/Admissions Jonathan Niles-Weed suggests refreshing linear algebra and multivariable calculus over the summer.
The program is quantitative, and that math shows up everywhere.
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Starting a CDS master’s this fall?
Incoming CDS Clinical Assistant Professor Sam Deng says get fluent in the core math (calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics) and in Python before the semester starts.
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CDS MS students (now alum) Adhiraj Singh, Deepanshu Mody, Ghina Al Shdaifat, and Hamza Alshamy built JOLT (Joint Optimization for Greedy Longest-Match Tokenization), a method that trains a LLM's subword vocabulary to match the exact rule used to split text when the model runs.
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Attention companies, nonprofits, and research labs! The deadline to submit a proposal for the CDS Capstone Project is now Sunday, August 16! cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-data-…
ALT Capstone Project proposals due August 16
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Our MS Admissions Ambassadors recently hosted a Housing Information Session for incoming MS students joining this fall. docs.google.com/presentation…
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CDS MS alum and incoming PhD student Yaozhong (Harry) Huang trained a deep learning model to generate FLAIR brain MRI from T1 and T2 scans at 3T, skipping a separate scan and cutting time in the machine.
With Prof. Riccardo Lattanzi of NYU Langone.
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The standard way to teach probability and statistics left students confused.
CDS Assoc. Prof. of Math and Data Science Carlos Fernandez-Granda restructured his course to pair each concept with real data, and wrote a book about it.
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The deadline to submit a proposal for the CDS Capstone Project is fast approaching! Projects can be submitted through August 2. Tackle your real-world data challenges by partnering with our master’s students this fall. Our students bring expertise in #AI, #MachineLearning, #nlp, and advanced #analytics: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-data-…
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Should every data science class balance theory and application the same way?
CDS Assoc. Prof. of Music Technology & DS Brian McFee said it depends. Proofs in a stats class, hands-on building in a capstone. Either way, in a data science class, you're getting a blend of both.
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"If you can tell where the theory ends and the practice begins, I already failed."
CDS Clinical Professor of Data Science, Psychology and Neural Science (@Pascallisch) on why he treats data science teaching like cooking a soup: the ingredients shouldn't be tasted separately.
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CDS PhD student Ebrahim Rasromani (@erasromani), NYU Grossman Asst. Prof. Yiqiu Shen (@ArtieShen), and colleagues show that LLMs can accurately extract pancreatic cyst features from radiology reports, turning clinical text into data for early detection research.
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🎉Congratulations to CDS Assistant Director of Academic and Student Affairs Francheska Jimenez on receiving NYU's Give-A-Violet Award, which honors staff who go above and beyond for the University community.🥂
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How do you teach machine learning without losing sight of the real world?
CDS Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science Grace Lindsay blends deep learning concepts with applications from climate science to human psychology.
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Congratulations to our graduating CDS students at every level: undergraduate, master's, and PhD! 🎓
You crossed the stage at NYU commencement and the GSAS PhD graduation this spring, and we couldn't be prouder! 🎉
Here's to what comes next! 💜
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🎓 Congrats to all our newest CDS MS graduates!
Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch (@Pascallisch), Director of Graduate Studies Brian McFee, and MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek, graduating herself, addressed the class. ✨
The field is lucky to have you. 🥂
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🎓✨ Hats off to our newest PhDs!
CDS hosted an in-person graduation lunch reception for students graduating in May and August 2026, joined by faculty guests for an afternoon of food, toasts, and well-earned recognition. 🥂
Congrats to all our grads!
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Congrats to CDS honorees at the 2026 Courant Student Prizes & Fellowships Celebration!
Pathbreaker: Geri Bakushi, Rafael Mateus Carrion.
MS Academic: Harshit Bhargava, Zijin Hu, Hanzhe Wu, Trueman Wu.
UG Academic: Dingyu Fu, Jack Tinker, Selena Zhang, Sifan ‘Silvia’ Zheng.
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The CDS Graduate Student Community Building Group hosted UNDP Chief of Investigations Luis F. Socorro and Team Lead Mohamed A. Marrakchi at CDS.
They discussed large language models in fraud detection.
Second-year MSDS students also demoed their capstone project.
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The first CDS research feature of the summer has dropped 📮 @yingwww_ improves AI system physical movement planning, @NickATomlin and @gregd_nlp teach AI agents to trade off cost and certainty, and more on this month’s feature.
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🎓 Congrats to our newest CDS undergraduate alumni! ✨
Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Louis Mittel addressed the class, sending the graduates off into the field. 🥂
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Eero P. Simoncelli, CDS founding member and professor, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
He studies how brains and machines represent visual information.
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CDS PhD student Uriel Martinez Leon closed out the session with a personal and lightning-fast account of statistical optimal transport.
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CDS PhD student Wentao Wang (@wentaow10) talked about rapid word learning through meta in-context learning.
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CDS PhD student Yilun Kuang (@KuangYilun) presented Rectified LpJEPA, on joint-embedding predictive architectures with sparse and maximum-entropy representations.
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CDS Faculty Fellow Mateo Dulce Rubio spoke about continuous learning in humanitarian demining.
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CDS Asst. Prof. Qi Lei (@Qi_Lei_) covered learning from weak signals, weak-to-strong generalization, and the road to self-improving AI.
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CDS Asst. Prof. (starting Sept 2026) Jaume Vives i Bastida (@jaumevivesb) presented work on new doubly-robust estimation methods.
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CDS hosted admitted PhD students in March for a morning of Lightning Research Talks, where faculty, fellows, and PhD students shared quick looks at their work.
CDS Asst. Prof. Grace Lindsay discussed studying attention at the interface of biology and AI.
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CDS MS student Nikolas Prasinos had his first abstract accepted at ISMRM 2026.
His work uses deep learning to clean up scanner interference in MRI–EEG recordings, recovering brain signals that would otherwise be lost in the noise.
In collaboration with @NYUImaging and @cai2r.
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📣 ATTN: companies, nonprofits, & research labs—the CDS Capstone Project is back!
🔬 CDS invites project proposals for our Fall 2026 Data Science MS Capstone program by Aug 2
👩🎓 Top students apply ML & AI to your projects
🌐 cds.nyu.edu/capstone-project…
📧 Contact: ds-capstone@nyu.edu
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The 2nd Sci4DL (@scifordl) workshop at #ICLR2026 in Rio drew a packed room.
Organized by CDS PhD alumni @ZKadkhodaie & @LotfiSanae, CDS Instructor @FlorentinGuth, and CDS-associated Prof. Eero Simoncelli, with CDS Silver Prof. @KempeLab as a speaker.
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CDS recently held an ice cream social for students.
Undergraduate, MS, and PhD students shared Ben & Jerry’s and worked on DIY craft projects.
The social provided a chance for the community to connect before the start of finals.
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GCBG and Pulse NYC recently hosted a successful industry coffee chat in the CDS Open Space.
The event featured Pulse Foundry AI Founder Mitchell Itkin, former JPMorgan Head of Product Varun J. Vincent, and AIG Vice President Syam Dondapati.
Students enjoyed food and boba.
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The Data Science Club, GCBG, and WiDS recently hosted a hugely successful pop-up shop in the CDS Open Space.
Students picked up limited merchandise including joggers, totes, notebooks, campfire mugs, and more.
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Alumni and current MS and PhD students recently gathered for the CDS Alumni-Graduate Student Mixer.
Over dinner and drinks, students got career advice from those already in the field, while alumni reconnected and welcomed the next generation of data scientists.
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WiDS recently hosted a Finals Destressor at CDS. Students gathered in the Open Space for sushi, a DIY boba bar, and bag charm crafting to take a break from the stress of finals season.
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CDS PhD students recently took a well-deserved day trip to Cold Spring to hike in Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve.
The group was fearlessly led by CDS PhD students Daniela Pinto Veizaga (@daleeyoko), Ioana Marinescu, and Lavender Jiang (@lavenderjiang99).
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“May” data science research be with you! Julia Kempe (
@KempeLab) tests the limits of #AI in Research Math, Anthony Guanxun Chen (@AntChen_) breaks down why #LLM answers are so predictable, and more on May’s CDS research feature! t.e2ma.net/webview/13kx3h/2a… #datascience
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