NYU Center for Data Science

Congratulations to our 2026 G-Research PhD Prize Award recipients! 🏆 CDS PhD alum Nikolaos Tsilivis 🏆 CDS PhD alum Lavender Jiang Courant’s annual prize, supported by Alastair LLP, honors the best machine learning theses.

CDS is seeking its next Chair to lead faculty recruitment, guide growth, and advance research in data science. Applications received by February 1, 2027, will receive full consideration. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/195991

CDS is hiring Faculty Fellows for fall 2027! Two-year appointments with independent research, research and travel funds, and one course to teach per year. Apply by November 24 for full consideration: apply.interfolio.com/193498

ATTENTION, Prospective Master's Students! A reminder that the master's program admissions information session is taking place THIS MONDAY, October 26, 10am ET on Zoom. Take a step forward in building your future career in data science. Register now: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

LLMs run on vectors, not symbols. A preprint led by Yale’s Tom McCoy (@rtommccoy.bsky.social) with CDS Assoc. Prof. @tallinzen.bsky.social found those vectors closely approximate symbolic structure in language, arithmetic, logic, and code. arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 news.yale.edu/2026/10/08/h...

Ataraxis Breast offers a faster, cheaper way to estimate breast cancer recurrence risk. CDS Visiting Scholar Krzysztof J. Geras and collaborators at CDS, Ataraxis AI, and elsewhere developed the AI test using routine pathology slides + clinical data. nyudatascience.medium.com/ai-test-offe...

The CDS Alumni Council recently hosted a finance and fintech industry skills panel, where alumni shared career advice and discussed risk management, fraud detection, and the skills data scientists and ML professionals need in the field.

"It's a class where you get out what you put in." CDS Assistant Professor Emily Black on self-direction, final projects, and what she hopes students bring to her courses.

World models can fail when the world changes. CDS PhD student Ying Wang, CDS founding director Yann LeCun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) & CDS Assistant Professor Mengye Ren (@mengyer.bsky.social) built AdaJEPA to adapt during planning. nyudatascience.medium.com/a-world-mode...

CDS recently welcomed Domino Data Lab for an info session on internships and new grad roles in forward deployed engineering and software engineering. Thanks to Bella Chang, Praveen Bandla, and Bianca Tulloch for joining us! Learn more: domino.ai/careers/camp...

CDS undergraduates recently joined Jason Walls, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Career Development at the NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development for a Job Search Workshop on finding internships and full-time roles, planning applications, and using NYU’s career resources.

AI agents don’t just adapt to the world; the world can adapt to them. At a TaD Seminar, University of Chicago Booth Assistant Professor of Applied AI Kawin Ethayarajh (@kawinethayarajh.bsky.social) discussed “mecha-nudges”: subtle environmental changes that influence AI agents but not humans.

Our PhD admissions information session is tomorrow morning on Zoom! Register now: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🤝 CDS recently hosted the AI Mentorship at Meta Forum, where PhD students learned about paid research positions with Meta scientists. CDS profs @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social, @mengyer.bsky.social, & @gregdnlp.bsky.social spoke. Applications open in November! More: www.metacareers.com/careerprogra...

Coinbase zoomed in to CDS! 🚀 Students recently heard from the Coinbase recruiting team walked students through its internship program and 2027 opportunities, then took their questions. Thanks to DSC@NYU for organizing!

CDS MS students recently joined eight CDS alumni for “How to Coffee Chat and Other Networking Advice,” practicing elevator pitches, asking career questions, and meeting fellow students. ☕️ Thanks to the alumni who came back to share their advice!

Meet CDS Asst. Prof. of Computer Science and Data Science Pratyusha Sharma, whose research spans the science of deep learning and using AI to accelerate scientific discovery. Read about her work, TEDAI talk, and reasons for joining CDS. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fac...

Bayesian AI models can struggle when training assumptions no longer fit new data. CDS PhD student Qingyang Zhu and CDS Professor Kyunghyun Cho (@kyunghyuncho.bsky.social) developed a way to adapt a model’s prior without updating its parameters. nyudatascience.medium.com/giving-ai-mo...

Congratulations to our 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows! 🏆 CDS Assistant Professor Juan Carlos Perdomo 🏆 CDS-affiliated Assistant Professor Romain Lopez ai2050.schmidtsciences.org

CDS grad students met recruiters from Revelio Labs (@reveliolabs.com), the MTA (@mta.info), Bertelsmann, Haymarket Media, BNP Paribas, Embarcadero Labs, Vanguard, and URBN at our recent Fall 2026 Grad Career Fair. Thanks to everyone who came out!

The October Research Feature has dropped. Laure Zanna launches the NYU Earth Systems Institute, Qihan Wang forces AI to forget, and more in this month’s feature: t.e2ma.net/webview/5yj8... #datascience

Want autoresearch on private research data you'd rather not share with a frontier lab? Outerloop now supports self-hosted LLM backends.

Outerloop 0.3.0 is out: run autoresearch agents fully on your own hardware. Here, Claude Code and Codex authors run on a self-hosted GLM-5.3. pip install outerloop-science==0.3.0

Timely paper.

🎓 CDS graduate students gathered in the CDS Open Space for our recent Grad Welcome (Back) Event. 👋 New and returning students met over dinner, drinks, and music as the fall semester got underway. 💜 Welcome to our incoming students, and welcome back to our returning students!

"An open mind, willingness to learn, and willingness to put in some work." New CDS Assistant Professor Pratyusha Sharma on the mindset she hopes students bring to her class, and why shortcuts don't pay off.

Can LLMs introspect? Anthropic said yes. However, CDS PhD student Shashwat Singh, CDS Associate Professor Tal Linzen (@tallinzen.bsky.social) & CDS Faculty Fellow Shauli Ravfogel (@shauli.bsky.social) found the evidence falls short. nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-research...

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.

How do students get started in research? CDS Prof Juliana Freire, CDS Faculty Fellow Mateo Dulce Rubio, CDS PhD graduate Claudia Skok Gibbs, CDS MS alum Aditya Singhal, and CDS undergraduate Riley Stacy joined a Research 101 panel on finding opportunities and building research experience.

Welcome to CDS, Jaume Vives-i-Bastida! He joins CDS as Assistant Professor of Economics and Data Science, building methods that measure what a policy has caused when you cannot run the experiment. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fac...

Congratulations to CDS alum Qihan Wang, former Faculty Fellow Nicholas Tomlin, CDS PhD student @michahu.bsky.social, UMass Amherst's Brian Dillon, and CDS Associate Professor @tallinzen.bsky.social: their paper on getting AI to forget the way people do has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026.

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/13kFF...

Can AI track stroke rehabilitation from video? CDS PhD student Victor Li, CDS Associate Professor Carlos Fernandez-Granda, and collaborators tested VLMs on the task, finding promise in movement counting but limitations in measuring impairment. nyudatascience.medium.com/can-vision-l...

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.bsky.social called it in April on @ziv_ravid’s podcast: math would “fall” like Go did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=78W5...

Welcome to CDS, Juan C. Perdomo! Perdomo joins CDS as Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Engineering, and Data Science. He researches performative prediction: what happens when a forecast changes the thing it predicts. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fac...