CDS launches a 4-part Agentic AI Workshop on Oct 1. Hands-on experience with MCP, context management, long-term memory, and multi-agent collaboration. Free API access to Claude & OpenAI models included. Wednesdays Oct 1, 8, 15 & 22. CDS current students and alumni only.

CDS Associate Professor of Music Technology and Data Science Brian McFee advises incoming MS students to focus on building connections within the CDS community. "Meet your peers and maintain those connections," he told MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek.

Like chain of thought, padding token can expand the computational power of transformers — without sacrificing speed. New work by CDS PhD alum @lambdaviking.bsky.social and Ai2's Ashish Sabharwal proves transformers with padding solve all TC⁰ problems. nyudatascience.medium.com/beyond-chain...

At #VivaTech2025, CDS Prof @yann-lecun.bsky.social spoke with @Melissahei about world models, reasoning machines, and V-JEPA 2: a 1.2B-param system trained on 1M+ hours of video. Chat: www.youtube.com/live/uwBs0Rd... Info: ai.meta.com/vjepa/ CDS' blog recently covered the V-JEPA 2 paper ⬇️

CDS Assoc. Prof. Carlos Fernandez-Granda's advice for incoming MS students: Think about your post-graduation goals early to guide coursework and internship decisions. "Have some kind of plan you can follow—it's ok if it changes." With CDS MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek.

CDS Prof. & Meta's Chief AI Scientist @ylecun.bsky.social introduces V‑JEPA 2, a self-supervised video model that learns what matters by ignoring irrelevant details — outperforming prior systems on motion prediction, action anticipation, + robot control. nyudatascience.medium.com/yann-lecun-t...

CDS Asst. Prof. Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) advises incoming MS students to work backward from their career goals. For future PhD students: "It can be better to go deep into one research project instead of trying to do five different research projects all at the same time."

Watch this new video of work by CDS Asst. Prof. Mengye Ren (@mengyer.bsky.social) and colleagues, who built PooDLe, an algorithm that helps AI systems learn from complex environments like busy streets. The method mimics how humans process cluttered scenes. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

CDS Assoc. Prof. @tallinzen.bsky.social & @umassamherst.bsky.social's Brian Dillon are co-leading a new ~$1.2M NSF project on semantic ambiguity in LLMs. While humans juggle multiple meanings mid-sentence, models often don’t. Can interventions improve alignment? www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Linguistics PhD student @jacksonpetty.org finds LLMs "quiet-quit" when instructions get long, switching from reasoning to guesswork. With CDS' @tallinzen.bsky.social, @shauli.bsky.social, @lambdaviking.bsky.social, @michahu.bsky.social, and Wentao Wang. nyudatascience.medium.com/llms-switch-...

Join us TOMORROW, Sept 10, 5-6pm in the CDS seventh floor open space for Research 101, our annual research panel.  Attendees should have received their entry information/link via email.

CDS Profs. @kempelab.bsky.social and @yann-lecun.bsky.social are PIs in a major new @simonsfoundation.org Collaboration on the "Physics of Learning and Neural Computation." www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/18/s...

Incoming (Fall '26) CDS Asst. Prof. Juan Carlos Perdomo and collaborators find that in most real-world cases, hiring more staff to expand screening is more effective than refining algorithms. nyudatascience.medium.com/helping-the-...

What better way to kick off the school year than by checking out some #datascience #research! Kyunghyun Cho builds bridges across the Pacific, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv discusses "The Efficiency Trap," and more on this month’s CDS research feature! mailchi.mp/nyu/the-cds-...

What do data scientists actually do? Find out Tuesday 9/9, 5-6pm! Our panel features data scientists from different backgrounds and career stages discussing the variety of roles available in the field.

The employer registration deadline has been extended to Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET! 🗓️

Congrats to CDS incoming MS student Noah Kim, who was awarded the Capital One Scholarship! Born and raised in Incheon, South Korea, Kim earned her B.S. in Cognitive Science with ML specialization from UC San Diego and focuses on inclusive NLP research for diverse language users.

Simpler AI can be better for medical imaging. CDS PhD student Yanqi Xu, with CDS-affiliated Krzysztof J. Geras, CDS’ Carlos Fernandez-Granda, and others, shows pared-down DETR models outperform complex ones in mammography & lung CT tasks. nyudatascience.medium.com/medical-ai-w...

CDS Asst. Prof. Eunsol Choi (@eunsol.bsky.social) shares advice for incoming students in this interview with MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek: 💡To make the best out of your time when you actually get here, explore faculty profiles and CDS research in advance.

Frontier AI systems failed to reliably flag safety risks related to more than 40% of common safety facts tested in the SAGE‑Eval benchmark by Yueh-Han (John) Cheni, @guydav.bsky.social, and @brendenlake.bsky.social. nyudatascience.medium.com/even-the-top...

CDS incoming MS students Geri Bakushi and Rafael Mateus have been awarded the CDS Pathbreaker Scholarship for Fall 2025. Bakushi, from Albania to Cleveland, was named to the All-USA Academic Team. Mateus, from Ecuador to Colombia, has research experience in self-supervised learning.

CDS/Courant Professor Andrew Gordon Wilson (@andrewgwils.bsky.social) argues mysterious behavior in deep learning can be explained by decades-old theory, not new paradigms: PAC-Bayes bounds, soft biases, and large models with a soft simplicity bias. nyudatascience.medium.com/deep-learnin...

Congratulations to CDS incoming MS student Donggyu Kim, who has been awarded the CDS DeepMind Scholarship for Fall 2025. Kim focuses on ethical AI and human-centered technologies, with experience in data analytics at Naver Z in South Korea.

CDS Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Data Science Brian McFee offers advice for incoming students: review prerequisites for core courses and address any gaps in Python programming or math background before classes start.

NYU Courant's CDS-affiliated @saining.bsky.social launched LiveCodeBench Pro: a real‑time competitive‑programming benchmark annotated by Olympiad medalists. Tested without tools, LLMs passed 53% of medium problems, 0% of hard ones — humans still clearly led. arxiv.org/abs/2506.11928

CDS Faculty Fellow @tallinzen.bsky.social and CDS Faculty Fellow @neurograce.bsky.social awarded NSF funding via new $20M AI institute to build better interactive AI systems using cognitive science, for applications like mental health. nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-tal-linz...

CDS will host its Fall 2025 Graduate Career Fair on September 25, 2025, from 1:30PM-4:30PM ET. This in-person event offers employers a prime opportunity to connect with our talented data science graduate students and recent alumni.

CDS Assistant Professor Grace Lindsay (@neurograce.bsky.social) offers practical summer prep advice for incoming students: brush up on quantitative basics if you're targeting technical skills, or research industry job requirements and work backward to plan your academic path.

CDS Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (@andrewgwils.bsky.social), PhD students Yilun Kuang, Sanae Lotfi, and Andres Potapczynski show how structured matrices capture key structure for attention, while providing computational efficiency. nyudatascience.medium.com/how-a-little...

CDS Associate Professor Carlos Fernandez-Granda shares advice for students joining us this fall: review course prerequisites and strengthen Python skills. MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek asks the essential questions.

NYU London is hiring a part-time instructor for “A Survey of Data Science,” this spring (Jan-May 2026). Core topics: - analyze datasets with Python - interpret common stats - implement linear/logistic regression - ML basics Apply by Sept 22, 2025 → apply.interfolio.com/171813

CDS Faculty Fellow @sucholutsky.bsky.social introduces RISc—a framework to identify risks from AI systems collaborating with humans. It offers mitigation strategies to prevent over-reliance and ensure AI thought partners support rather than supplant human thinking. arxiv.org/abs/2505.16899

Meet CDS Faculty Fellow Lucius Bynum, starting this fall after completing his PhD at CDS in 2025. His work combines causal inference and ML to improve treatment effect estimation, explainability, and fairness. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

Final reminder: Capstone proposal deadline is this Sunday, August 17! Partner with our master's students to solve real-world data challenges. Submit your proposal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-d...

CDS graduate students and alumni recently connected over food and drinks at a local gastropub. New and returning students networked with program graduates, building community between current and former members of the CDS family.

CDS extends a warm welcome to incoming CDS Faculty Fellow Annamaria Prati, who develops methods for studying regions with sparse or inconsistent data, using time series econometrics, geo-spatial analysis, game theory & Bayesian modeling. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

CDS Alumni gathered in 8 cities this summer—Austin, Boston, Chicago, D.C., London, LA, Seattle, and SF. Thanks to all the alumni organizers who made these regional happy hours happen. Pics (L-R) by Preethi Narayan in Austin, Anand Tyagi in Seattle, and Chen Chen in DC.

Congrats! CDS PhD Student Vlad Sobal, Courant PhD Student Kevin Zhang, CDS Faculty Fellow timrudner.bsky.social, CDS Profs @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social and @yann-lecun.bsky.social, and Brown's Randall Balestriero won the Best Paper Award at ICML's 'Building Physically Plausible World Models' Workshop!

Industry partners consistently tell us about the exceptional value our CDS Capstone teams deliver. “Capstone teams have provided us with unparalleled innovative problem solving,” says Christy King of Woven Health Collective. Submit a proposal by Aug 17: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CDS welcomes Nicholas Tomlin (@nickatomlin.bsky.social), joining CDS as Faculty Fellow. He completed his PhD at Berkeley EECS & will be an asst prof at TTIC in 2026. His work spans goal‑oriented LM reasoning, multi‑agent interaction, and explainability. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

CDS Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch advises incoming MS students: Use CDS as a gateway to NYU's broader community — CDS faculty have joint appointments across various academic units. "More data science happens outside CDS than inside CDS," he says. youtube.com/shorts/WKzTT...

New research shows LLMs favor compression over nuance — a key reason they lack human-like understanding. By Stanford postdoc Chen Shani, CDS' @shwartzzzivravid.bsky.social & @yann-lecun.bsky.social, & Stanford professor @jurafsky.bsky.social. nyudatascience.medium.com/the-efficien...

Capstone proposal deadline now extended to August 17, 2025! Partner with our exceptional master's students to tackle real-world data challenges using advanced ML, AI, and analytics. More info: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-d... Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Get through the dog days of summer by enjoying some data science research 🔬 Cristina Savin's stance that AI needs "Kindergarten," Tal Linzen, Sam Bowman, and Julian Michael on ChatGPT "breaking NLP," and more on August’s research feature! 📨 mailchi.mp/nyu/the-cds-...

CDS MS student Kerr Tan is a returning Data Science Intern at PepsiCo, developing a multi-agent AI chatbot in their vibrant SoHo office. Fun fact: her manager, James Zhan, is an NYU MSDS alum! Kerr is also serving as a TA for DS-UA 301: Introduction to LLMs.

CDS' @tallinzen.bsky.social and @michahu.bsky.social et al show that "baby" LMs trained on human‑scale data (~100M words) provide more useful analogs to human language acquisition than full-size LLMs like Llama 3, which are trained on trillions of words. nyudatascience.medium.com/large-langua...

WATCH: CDS Prof. @yann-lecun.bsky.social warns that LLMs lack memory, planning, and grounded world models. He argued for JEPA + energy-based models as a better path toward Advanced Machine Intelligence. “If you're interested in human-level AI, don’t work on LLMs.” www.youtube.com/live/m3H2q6M...

CDS Assoc. Prof. Carlos Fernandez-Granda has published "Probability and Statistics for Data Science" with Cambridge University Press—pairing probability and statistics side by side, with real-world examples throughout. nyudatascience.medium.com/from-abstrac...

‪@tiagoventura.bsky.social‬ + CDS-affiliated Jonathan Nagler & @jatucker.bsky.social tested a WhatsApp deactivation during Brazil’s 2022 election—blocking auto-downloads of images & videos reduced misinformation recall by ~0.4σ, but didn't change beliefs or polarization. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

CDS Capstone data science MS students delivered deployable analytics to S&P Global Ratings, Horizon Media & others. Fall 2025 project proposals are due August 3. Learn more: nyudatascience.medium.com/real-world-i...