Could overusing AI halt human progress? MIT researcher Katherine M. Collins, former CDS Faculty Fellow @umangsbhatt.bsky.social, and CDS Faculty Fellow @sucholutsky.bsky.social investigate. nyudatascience.medium.com/will-relying...

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. With NYU Langone's Center for Biomedical Imaging and @cai2r.net.

Why can't you say “one hour was lasted by the meeting”? English speakers know, but no one teaches them. NYU Linguistics PhD student Cara Leong and CDS Assoc Prof @tallinzen.bsky.social used tiny LMs to test how learners pick up this kind of hidden rule. nyudatascience.medium.com/why-cant-you...

📣 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-pro... 📧 Contact: [email protected]

The 2nd Sci4DL workshop at #ICLR2026 in Rio drew a packed room. Organized by CDS PhD alumni Zahra Kadkhodaie & Sanae Lotfi, CDS Instructor @florentinguth.bsky.social, and CDS-associated Prof. @eerosim.bsky.social, with CDS' @kempelab.bsky.social as a speaker. scienceofdlworkshop.github.io/2026/

CDS Silver Prof. @kempelab.bsky.social working with Charles Arnal, @tacocohen.bsky.social, Vivien Cabannes, and Remi Munos studied how LLMs can train more efficiently by reusing past experience instead of constantly generating new data. Accepted to the ICML '26 conference. arxiv.org/abs/2604.08706

How do you study a reef without disturbing it? CDS Capstone students Amaan Mansuri, Vishwa Raval, & Shravan Khunti built a computer vision system that IDs Caribbean reef fish from underwater robot footage. Selected for the Japanese 2025 SDGs Challenge. nyudatascience.medium.com/underwater-a...

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.

Do AI models really learn physics, or just what physics looks like? Flatiron's Helen Qu, with Polymathic AI & CDS researchers including @yann-lecun.bsky.social, finds that models predicting in latent space, rather than pixel by pixel, learn physics better. nyudatascience.medium.com/why-ai-that-...

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.

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.

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.

WiDS recently hosted a Finals Destressor at CDS. Students gathered in the CDS Open Space for sushi, a DIY boba bar, and bag charm crafting to take a break from the stress of finals season.

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.bsky.social).

AI agents often struggle to plan movements because their internal representations of the physical world can be overly tangled. CDS PhD student Ying Wang shows how straightening these pathways improves AI navigation. Accepted to ICML 2026. nyudatascience.medium.com/improving-wo... 1/2

“May” data science research be with you! Julia Kempe tests the limits of #AI in Research Math, Anthony GX-Chen breaks down why #LLM answers are so predictable, and more on May’s CDS research feature! t.e2ma.net/webview/13kx... #datascience

Current AI agents take many actions without considering their cost-effectiveness. Courant PhD @wenxuand.bsky.social and CDS' @nickatomlin.bsky.social and @gregdnlp.bsky.social show LLMs make better tradeoffs when uncertainty is estimated separately. nyudatascience.medium.com/teaching-ai-...

📣 Attention companies, nonprofits, and research labs! CDS invites project proposals for our Data Science MS Capstone program in Fall 2026 🧑‍🎓 Top students apply advanced ML & AI to your projects 📅 Submit by Aug 2, 2026 via: forms.gle/kPxQbfTfEKts...

Aukosh Jagannath (Waterloo) visited CDS recently for a colloquium on the training dynamics and local geometry of high-dimensional learning. He spoke about how stochastic gradient descent's behavior on statistical models reduces to a finite-dimensional dynamical system.

Three CDS PhD students recently shared research at a CDS seminar. Anthony GX-Chen (@agx-chen.bsky.social) discussed preventing mode collapse from RL. Uriel Martinez Leon presented on Wasserstein Least Squares. Falaah Arif Khan explained her new anti-bias benchmark, WinoIdentity.

More compute time doesn’t equal more creativity. Courant PhD student @manyawadhwa.bsky.social, CDS Assoc. Prof. @gregdnlp.bsky.social, and their coauthors built a benchmark showing AI struggles with associative reasoning. nyudatascience.medium.com/measuring-th...

Applications for the Fall 2026 Data Science Research Program for Undergraduate Students close Friday, May 1 at 11:59pm. Conduct research with CDS faculty and receive up to $5k in funding! Apply: cds.nyu.edu/research-pro... Open to all of NYU! @nyutandon.bsky.social @nyucourant.bsky.social

CDS PhD students recently gathered for a community-building lunch hour to catch up and share a few rounds of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

CDS Prof Kyunghyun Cho (@kyunghyuncho.bsky.social) judged the Build With Google AI Hackathon at @nyutandon / NYU Tandon, a 2-day challenge to build apps using Gemini. 🏆 CDS MS students Beibarys Nyussupov, Deepali Balakrishna Ksheersagar, and Kanishkha Jaisankar took 1st, 3rd, and 5th place! 1/5

In last year's DSRPUGS, CDS undergrad Will Wu worked with CDS Asst. Prof. Mengye Ren (@mengyer.bsky.social) to design a multi-step forecasting agent. "The program gave me a much deeper appreciation for the iterative process of AI research." Apply by May 1: cds.nyu.edu/research-pro... 1/2

Thank you for inviting me! ☺️ Always great to chat about neuroscience, NLP and linguistics under one roof!

CDS, @nyucourant.bsky.social, & @nyutandon.bsky.social Prof. Claudio Silva and Tandon Assoc. Prof. Chinmay Hegde are leading a DARPA effort to build an AI collaborator for math. The team plans to translate informal proofs into formally verified arguments. engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyu-par...

UCSF postdoctoral researcher Shailee Jain (@shaileejain.bsky.social) recently visited CDS for the Minds, Brains and Machines Seminar. She discussed using AI interpretability tools and linguistic theory to better understand the human brain. Jain is at the Chang lab in UCSF's Dept of Neurosurgery.

At NYU's Global AI Frontier Lab Seminar Series, James D’Ercole of the UN's Department of Field Support discussed the challenges of deploying AI in peace operations, highlighting a real-time translation system in South Sudan designed for low-resource, high-risk field environments.

Announcing the 2026–2027 Data Science Research Program for Undergraduate Students projects!

CDS Assoc. Prof. @tallinzen.bsky.social is teaching “Large Language Models and Linguistics” at CreteLing 2026, a summer school running July 18–31, in Crete, Greece. The course examines how LLMs contribute to the scientific investigation of human language. linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl26/

CDS PhD students Aramis Tanelus, Varun Yerram, Grégoire Lambrecht, Carmel Pe’er, Jiacheng (Patrick) Shen, Nishka Pant, Niket Patel, Ellen Su, Boyi Yang, Sara Dragutinovic, and Shashwat Singh (@shashwat1002.bsky.social) met to celebrate their first year at CDS.

Courant Faculty Fellow @jqchen.bsky.social, CDS Assoc Prof @gregdnlp.bsky.social, and Yutong Xin & @idillig.bsky.social from UT-Austin introduced VeriSoftBench, a benchmark of 500 Lean 4 proof obligations for software verification. GitHub: github.com/utopia-group... arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2602.18307

CDS Assoc. Prof. of Music Technology and Data Science Brian McFee discusses his research focus at the intersection of audio signals and large language models. He works on music information retrieval, investigating the representations of audio learned by LLMs and other systems.

CDS Associated Prof. Vasant Dhar (Stern School of Business, author, podcast host) moderated the CDS Startup Panel. Panelists Haftan Eckholdt (5x founder), Mike King (iPullRank), and CDS alumnus Suvir Wadhwa (Flite) discussed the path to startup success.

Using advanced AI optimizers like Muon doesn’t have to rely on guesswork. Courant PhD students Shikai Qiu and Zixi (Charlie) Chen, CDS PhD Student Hoang Phan, CDS Asst. Prof. Qi Lei, and CDS Prof. @andrewgwils.bsky.social bridge theory and practice. nyudatascience.medium.com/building-the...

Huge congratulations to Julia Stoyanovich, Institute Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Responsible AI, on being named on The 2026 Above & Beyond: Women list by City & State NY. #NYUTandonMade www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/...

CDS Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science Carlos Fernandez-Granda on his research into foundational models. He is excited to explore the “potential and limitations of these models for applications in healthcare, scientific imaging.”

CDS and the Wasserman Center recently hosted an Interview & Technical Prep Workshop for CDS undergrads. The session involved technical problem-solving tips, interview strategies, and insights into what recruiters prioritize during the hiring process.

CDS students recently gathered at the CDS Open Space for "Interview Prep Jeopardy" organized by the CDS Graduate Student Community-Building Group (GCBG) and Women in Data Science (WiDS). Teams answered questions inspired by real data science interviews to win prizes of CDS merch.

The April CDS Research Feature has dropped 📧 Yann LeCun brings us Rectified LpJEPA, Jiajian Ma develops a new deep learning model to lower multiple sclerosis diagnosis error rates, and more on this month’s feature! t.e2ma.net/webview/hcix...

CDS PhD student Anthony GX-Chen explains his paper, “KL-Regularized Reinforcement Learning Is Designed to Mode Collapse.” See blog linked below for more.

Why do AI models repeat the same answers? CDS PhD student Anthony GX-Chen, CDS Associate Professor Rajesh Ranganath, and co-authors show that diversity loss and mode collapse are built-in features of reinforcement learning. nyudatascience.medium.com/why-are-ai-a...

CDS Asst. Prof. Yanjun Han and colleagues at NYU and MIT explains why transformers trained on synthetic data excel at empirical Bayes (EB) problems. By using universal priors, these models adapt to new data through posterior contraction. arxiv.org/abs/2602.15136

Applications for the Data Science Research Program for Undergraduate Students are open! - Work directly with CDS faculty and researchers on cutting-edge projects - In-person - 2026-2027 academic year - 10 hours/week - Funded Deadline: May 1, 2026 cds.nyu.edu/research-pro...

CDS-affiliated Asst Prof @saining.bsky.social, CDS founding director @yann-lecun.bsky.social, and others released a paper on multimodal pretraining that focuses on moving past the limitations of standard language modeling to create more versatile systems. arxiv.org/abs/2603.03276

CDS Asst. Prof. Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) shares research directions she is excited about: - Building foundation models for satellite imagery in climate applications - Using recent compute increases to build embodied models that navigate complex environments by mimicking the brain

Clarivate named NYU a top research institution for its concentration of "highly cited researchers," which is defined as being in the top 0.1%. NYU is home to 0.4% of these researchers, putting it among the top 70 research powerhouses worldwide. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p... (1/3)

AI is becoming incredibly powerful at solving complex math, but it requires human supervision. CDS Silver Prof Julia Kempe (@kempelab.bsky.social) tested top models on unpublished math questions, exploring their capabilities and limits in a new paper. nyudatascience.medium.com/testing-the-...

CDS Clinical Professor of Data Science and Psychology Pascal Wallisch discusses cognitive diversity. His work uses network data to predict individual differences. “Two people are very, very different mentally. That is not noise.”