CDS MS students joined Bertelsmann on Tuesday for an info session.
Representatives discussed the 18-month Data Science Track of the Future Leaders Graduate Program, which features a salary range of $80,000 to $90,000.
Learn more at www.futureleaders-data.com.
CDS hosted a hackathon with NVIDIA, Dell, and AI4Purpose on Feb 18–19.
CDS graduate students built computer vision apps using the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip.
Dell's Logan Lawler provided technical mentorship for the 40 competing teams.
Omni Care AI won 1st prize.
Generalist AIs ace medical exams but fail at hospital operations.
But a small, specialized model created by @lavenderjiang99.bsky.social, @angie-chen.bsky.social, @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social, Eric Oermann, et al beat massive generalists in clinical settings.
nyudatascience.medium.com/generalist-a...
CDS' recent TaD Seminar featured @fredashi.bsky.social (U. of Waterloo) on symbol grounding in language models.
Her work found grounding concentrates in middle layers via an aggregate attention mechanism — replicating across transformers and state-space models, but not unidirectional LSTMs.
CDS is hosting its Spring 2026 Graduate Career Fair on Monday, March 30, 11am–3pm at 60 Fifth Avenue.
Connect with our data science grad students and recent alumni seeking internships and full-time roles.
Free to attend; employers register by March 11: forms.gle/gWGbucuP29GR...
🌸The Women in Data Science (WiDS) group hosted a Galentine's gathering at the CDS Open Space.💐
Students created DIY craft flower bouquets and enjoyed light snacks.
CDS MS and undergraduate students recently gathered for the annual research project fair to discuss projects like driver gaze prediction and carbon benchmarking.
Researchers from across the university met with students to facilitate new collaborations for the current and upcoming semesters.
CDS-affiliated Assoc. Prof. @leifw.bsky.social wrote for The New York Times about Moltbook, the AI-only social network.
He argued that the AI social network is a form of storytelling reflecting human culture, noting that 90% of posts get no response.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
CDS Asst. Prof. of CS and Data Science Mengye Ren (@mengyer.bsky.social) spoke with The Independent about Moltbook, a social network for AI agents.
Ren said the bots primarily repeat language model data rather than demonstrating genuine communication.
www.the-independent.com/tech/moltboo...
The validation loss of an LLM is too simple to measure progress, and is misleading as a predictor of performance.
CDS' @michahu.bsky.social & @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social, + Courant's Nicholas Lourie, reveal why traditional scaling laws are often unreliable.
nyudatascience.medium.com/how-llms-val...
CDS-affiliated Assistant Professor of Physics @stemartiniani.bsky.social and a research team developed PropMolFlow, an AI model that designs molecules 10x faster than previous methods to speed up the creation of new pharmaceuticals and materials.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
CDS PhD students visited the Bryant Park Winter Village recently for a group skating session.
The students hit the ice before heading to the Lodge for hot cocoa to escape the February chill.
Slides from the talk: drive.google.com/file/d/1nGHF...
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CDS Prof @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social gave a keynote at the most recent NeurIPS.
He discussed the "Learning to X" paradigm, where one learns algorithms rather than designing them manually, and how he found ways through his research confusion through collaborations at CDS.
neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
TODAY is the last day to submit applications for the CDS MS program for Fall 2026! cds.nyu.edu/masters-admi...
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At a fireside chat hosted by SBVA and the Global AI Frontier Lab, CDS founding director @yann-lecun.bsky.social discussed AI research, open-source platforms, and why “AGI” is a misleading goal — pointing instead to “world models” as a path forward.
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A quick (and friendly 😊) reminder to our applicants of key required materials:
- Transcripts
- Statement of Academic Purpose
- Résumé/CV
- Three letters of recommendation
Questions? Contact cds-admissions@nyu.edu.
Here are some helpful links:
🔗To view our admissions requirements: cds.nyu.edu/masters-admi...
🔗To start/continue your application: apply.gsas.nyu.edu/apply/
Since the application due date for the CDS MS program falls on a holiday weekend – this Saturday, February 14 – applications will remain open until Tuesday, February 17, 5:00pm EST‼️
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CDS recently hosted U. of Waterloo PhD student @argymouz.bsky.social for a MIC Seminar.
Argyris shared research on optimal differentially private sampling of unbounded Gaussians.
This work was originally presented at COLT 2025 and developed with @viverson03.bsky.social and @gautamkamath.com.
A new paper from CDS' @yann-lecun.bsky.social and Brown's Randall Balestriero introduces LeJEPA, a simpler way to train AI systems without labels.
The method drops many common training tricks, scales efficiently, and still performs well on benchmarks like ImageNet.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544
Jonny Sabbath, founder of Living Brands, visited CDS to discuss building bespoke AI tools for culture-forward brands.
He shared how he scales taste across emerging channels using data science for clients like Moet Hennessy.
The event also highlighted a Spring internship.
Alumni Spotlight: CDS Bachelor’s graduate (’23) Carla Garcia Medina is a Software Engineer at Google in Zurich.
She uses the research skills she developed in RL and NLP at CDS to work on LLMs for Search Ads.
A quick (and friendly 😊) reminder to our applicants of key required materials:
- Transcripts
- Statement of Academic Purpose
- Résumé/CV
- Three letters of recommendation
Questions? Contact cds-admissions@nyu.edu.
Here are some helpful links 🔗
To view our admissions requirements: cds.nyu.edu/masters-admi...
To start/continue your application: apply.gsas.nyu.edu/apply/
Since the application due date for the CDS MS program falls on a holiday weekend – this Saturday, February 14 – applications will remain open until Tuesday, February 17, 5:00pm EST‼️
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Here are some helpful links:
To view our admissions requirements: cds.nyu.edu/masters-admi...
To start/continue your application: apply.gsas.nyu.edu/apply/
CDS Prof Carlos Fernandez-Granda shares words of wisdom for data science students.
Advice: while tools change, core concepts are always the same, so invest in the foundations of stats & ML.
Applications to CDS' MS in data science are open through Feb 14:
cds.nyu.edu/admissions/m...
Applying to the MS in data science program?
CDS faculty including Pascal Wallisch, Carlos Fernandez-Granda, @eunsol.bsky.social, @neurograce.bsky.social, and Brian McFee share advice for applicants.
Deadline to apply to the MS program: Feb 14.
nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-faculty-...
In an earlier Physics of Learning talk, Kempe outlined how synthetic data’s growing role can change neural scaling laws, leading to decay phenomena and skill loss, and proposed solutions to limit degradation in model training.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Dr...
