CDS PhD alum Vishakh Padmakumar (@vishakhpk.bsky.social), now at Stanford, tackled the hard part of summarization — deciding what matters. At Adobe, he built diversity-aware summarizers; at AI2, intent-based tools for literature review tables. nyudatascience.medium.com/supercharged...

Congrats to CDS Faculty Fellow Ilia Sucholutsky (@sucholutsky.bsky.social), who will join Purdue University's Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. His lab will work on AI thought partners, and he's recruiting PhD students this cycle.

CDS MS student Yueh-Han “John” Chen, CDS Postdoc Researcher Rico Angell, CDS Associate Professor He He, and others developed a lightweight AI monitor that blocks 93% of decomposition attacks — with 90% lower cost and 50% less latency than large models. nyudatascience.medium.com/lightweight-...

CDS PhD students met with JPMorganChase's Machine Learning Center of Excellence to explore 2026 AI & ML internships. The JPMC team shared details on their work developing solutions across NLP, computer vision, time series analysis, and recommender systems.

Make it a November to remember with some data science research! Grace Lindsay launches “AI for the Planet,” Lily Zhang discovers that most chatbots miss half the world’s values, and more on this month’s CDS #research feature. t.e2ma.net/webview/h8qd... #DataScience

MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek on what drew her to CDS: ✅ Pioneering history in data science education ✅ Faculty with strong industry connections ✅ Interdisciplinary collaboration ✅ The freedom to specialize through electives after completing foundational courses

Thinking about applying to the CDS MS program? CDS Assoc. Prof Carlos Fernandez-Granda shares advice for prospective students: 💡Build a foundation for CDS courses 💡Check prerequisites 💡Work on programming skills 💡Know calculus and linear algebra for probability/statistics

CDS PhD alum Will Merrill (@lambdaviking.bsky.social) has been hired as tenure-track faculty at @tticconnect.bsky.social starting Fall 2026. Now at AI2, he is exploring how theoretical work from his NYU dissertation might improve open-source language modeling efforts. ttic.edu/news/#0625-1

CDS PhD students gathered for the Fall 2025 Welcome Reception, which offered a chance to connect and build community over food and drinks. New and returning students mingled, kicking off the academic year in a relaxed setting just steps from Washington Square Park.

Considering the CDS PhD program? Watch our info session, featuring: ⚡️CDS Assoc. Prof. of Neural Science and Data Science Cristina Savin ⚡️Incoming Asst. Prof. Pratyusha Sharma (@pratyusha_PS) ⚡️Incoming Asst. Prof. Juan Carlos Perdomo Silva www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDk9...

Considering the CDS MS program? Watch our info session, featuring: ⚡️CDS Assoc. Prof. of Music Technology and Data Science Brian McFee ⚡️CDS Assistant Director of Career Development & Industry Relations Zoë Levin ⚡️Current MS students www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vRu...

CDS PhD student Jingtong Su, CDS Silver Professor @kempelab.bsky.social, and Karen Ullrich (Meta AI) show that manipulating just a few attention heads can disable safety in LLMs or boost math reasoning — revealing where models really store concepts. nyudatascience.medium.com/pinpointing-...

CDS hosted a SQL for Interviewing Workshop for undergrad students. Alex Ranieri, Senior Data Scientist at Spotify and CDS MS alum, shared examples and frameworks for tackling SQL interview questions.

CDS students met with Marie Bragg from NYU's Dept of Population Health to discuss research opportunities. Her lab studies food marketing on social media, dangerous viral challenges, visual attention to food ads and adolescent calorie consumption, and food company donations.

CDS MS student Qihan Wang, with CDS Asst. Prof. Emily Black, CDS Assoc. Prof. @tallinzen.bsky.social, and CDS Visiting Academic Shidong Pan, shows multilingual prompts can make AI more culturally diverse. Paper led by Black, accepted to EMNLP. nyudatascience.medium.com/asking-ai-in...

Big news: The Vicković Lab’s study on colon aging has been accepted by @natbiotech.nature.com! The team built a detailed atlas of aging colon tissue, using spatial transcriptomics + a new tool (cSplotch) to profile ~1,500 samples & 400k nuclei. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hj3ry7 #SpatialTranscriptomics

EY representatives visited CDS for a company information session on internships and full-time roles. CDS Computer and Data Science alumni Natalia Fernelius, Patricia Guirao & Alexandra Przysucha, and current MS Student Rebecca Rinehart discussed openings at the company.

CDS Faculty Fellow Jian Qian joins CDS and Courant this fall. His work spans machine learning theory and interactive decision-making, from online learning and contextual bandits to reinforcement learning. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

CDS alumni Jenny Le (Rockstar Games), Yihao Larry Zhong (Nvidia), and Daniel Drafta (biomedical informatics) shared career stories at a recent undergrad panel. Key advice: ⭐️embrace imposter syndrome ⭐️leverage NYC connections ⭐️focus on realistic skill matches in job searches

CDS Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) shares advice for prospective applicants: - Strengthen your application - Demonstrate your interest through extracurriculars - Gain relevant experience - Articulate your reasons for pursuing data science

CDS recently hosted our Fall 2025 Graduate Career Fair on Sept. 25, connecting students with representatives from House IQ, DoorDash, Arcsine Analytics, S&P Global, MTA, BNP Paribas, StackAI, and JPMorgan.

CDS Faculty Fellow @florentinguth.bsky.social talks about his latest work, discussed in the blog post below.

CDS Faculty Fellow @florentinguth.bsky.social, CDS PhD alum Zahra Kadkhodaie, & CDS Professor @eerosim.bsky.social, in a NeurIPS 2025 paper, estimate image probability directly & discover natural images differ in probability by factors of up to 10^14,000. nyudatascience.medium.com/when-ai-lear...

Attention, Prospective MS Students! A reminder this is on Monday! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Application deadline is now Feb 14, 5:00pm EST.

CDS PhD student Lily Zhang and her collaborators at Meta tested 21 language models and found that chatbot responses align with just 41% of global human preferences. nyudatascience.medium.com/most-chatbot... 1/2

CDS Clinical Professor of Data Science and Psychology Pascal Wallisch shares advice for prospective students: - In 2025, data science is AI. - Don't use ChatGPT for your personal statement. - Build strong coding fundamentals — they're MORE important now, not less. youtu.be/YW9O8rioDks

Attention Prospective Students! A reminder this is Thursday! Register at ✏️ : nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CDS Founding Director and Prof. Yann LeCun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) presented "JEPA, World Models, Planning, and the Future of AI" at a recent talk hosted at CDS. LeCun explored joint embedding predictive architectures and their potential to enable AI systems that can model the world and plan.

CDS Faculty Fellow Ilia Sucholutsky (@sucholutsky.bsky.social) and colleagues explore how LLMs could advance the science of collective cognition — and how AI may reshape how we study societies themselves. nyudatascience.medium.com/how-llms-cou...

CDS students kicked off the year with a Women in Data Science launch party in the Open Space. The afternoon featured an intro to WiDS' mission, Jeopardy competition, free food, and CDS merch prizes. The group's events are open to all CDS students throughout the year.

CDS' recent Research 101 panel, moderated by Prof. Laure Zanna, brought together: ⭐️CDS Prof. Claudio Silva ⭐️CDS PhD student Claudia Skok Gibbs ⭐️CDS Faculty Fellow Yoav Wald ⭐️CDS PhD alum Meet Barot (@nowittynamesleft.bsky.social) ⭐️Undergrad Anna Ye

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.” nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-grace-li...

The October Research feature has dropped. Yann LeCun thinks AI should learn to ignore things, Grace Lindsay and Tal Linzen receive funding as part of a new $20 million NSF institute, and more on this month’s feature! ✉️ t.e2ma.net/webview/1b7v...

The Fall 2026 application for the PhD in Data Science is now open. Deadline: Dec 4, 2025, 5pm EST. Join our info session Oct 16 @ 9:30am EST to learn about the application process, requirements, and program. Register: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Fall 2026 application for the Master's in Data Science is now open. Deadline: Jan 22, 2026, 5pm EST. Join our info session Oct 20 @ 10am EST to learn about the application process, requirements, and program. Register: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Applications open for 2-year CDS Faculty Fellows starting Sept 2026. Fellows lead independent research across computational methods & domain sciences, teach 1 course/year, and have funding for research and travel. 6 openings. Deadline: Nov 24. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/174686

A warm welcome to all new CDS MS and PhD students! We wrapped 3 days of orientation with workshops, social activities, and academic sessions. Students participated in scavenger hunts, paint & sip events, and heard from current students and alumni about their experience at CDS.

CDS students met with NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder for an annual internship session. James Kopanidis, Basketball Operations Strategic Planning, discussed 3 remote paid internship opportunities: 🚀 Analyst Intern 🚀 Software Engineer Intern 🚀 Applied AI Engineer Intern

Leaders from industry, startups, government, & nonprofits joined us for a "What the Heck Does A Data Scientist Do?" panel. Panelists: ⭐CDS Prof Foster Provost ⭐Goguma CTO Haftan Eckholdt ⭐CDS alums @swapneel.bsky.social & Tatenda Ndambakuwa ⭐NYC Campaign Finance Board's Sarath Kareti

CDS-affiliated faculty @lerrelpinto.com worked with recent Courant PhD graduate @notmahi.bsky.social and former NYU undergrad Haritheja Etukuru to develop Robot Utility Models that succeed in unfamiliar settings with zero-shot deployment. nyudatascience.medium.com/download-and...

NYC bars and data science — a perfect mix. 🍻 CDS Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch gave 2 sold-out Lectures On Tap talks: 💡"Death, Debt, and Data: Learning from History" 💡"AI: Allure, Apprehension, Anguish, Alignment & Ascension." abc7ny.com/amp/post/lec...

A day in the life with Peter Zhong, MS student and MS Admissions Ambassador at CDS—class, lunch near campus, project-team dinner, subway home. Interested in the MS or student life at CDS? Email Peter: [email protected].

Children outperform cutting‑edge language models in causal reasoning when it involves “AND” logic. CDS PhD student Anthony GX‑Chen and CDS-associated Rob Fergus, et al, introduce inference‑time hypothesis sampling to close the gap with human children. nyudatascience.medium.com/children-bea...

Congrats to CDS undergrad alum Sangwon Baek on two achievements at JAMA Network Open: 1. Appointed Distinguished Reviewer (joining just 100 experts worldwide) 2. Publishing an invited commentary on clinical LLM evaluation methods: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

At a recent panel, CDS 2nd-year MS students shared insights from their summer internships: 🚀 Vaarun Muthappan (Einride) 🚀 Qihan Wang (PayPal) 🚀 Aysha Allahverdiyeva (CVS Health/Aetna) 🚀 Abhinav Batra (Arthur W. Page Society) 🚀 Vy Mai (Apple) 🚀 Sumanth Hachalli Karanam (Amazon)

CDS Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Eunsol Choi (@eunsol.bsky.social) shares advice for incoming MS students: research successful graduates and study the paths they took during their time at CDS. Watch her conversation with MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek.

CDS Faculty Fellow Jaume de Dios Pont joins CDS in January. With a background in pure mathematics, his work now bridges AI and math, focusing on proof verification systems like Lean and better AI tools for mathematicians. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

The CDS Fall 2026 PhD program application is now open! cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissio... Info session Oct 16, 9:30am-11:30am Deadline: December 4, 2025 Programs cover machine learning, computational statistics, and applied math research. #DataScience #GradSchool #MachineLearning #PhD #NYU

📷 The CDS Fall 2026 MS program application is now open! cds.nyu.edu/masters-admi... 📷 MS info session Oct 20, 10am-11am 📷 MS deadline: Jan 22, 2026 The program covers machine learning, computational statistics, applied math research, and more! #DataScience #GradSchool #Masters

CDS MS alum Aryan Jain (Class of 2024) returned to talk about his role as Data Scientist at BCG X. He shared his journey from admissions ambassador and grad student leader to full-time consultant, plus insights on upcoming opportunities at the firm.