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Meet our MS Admissions Ambassadors! They are 6 current MS students here to share their experiences and answer your questions about life at CDS. Stay tuned for new Day In The Life videos from our first-year ambassadors, and check out last fall's videos in the thread below.

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Tomorrow! Join us, in person, for our informational Open House for the CDS Data Science Research Program for Undergraduates on Weds, Feb 26, 5-6pm EST! www.eventbrite.com/e/open-house...

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Curious about MSDS student budgets? CDS MSDS students share their real monthly budgets living in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. Have questions? Email our Admissions Ambassadors at [email protected]. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvse...

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Join us next week, in person, for our informational Open House for the CDS Data Science Research Program for Undergraduates on Feb 26, 5-6pm EST! www.eventbrite.com/e/open-house...

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With CDS hiring Clinical Faculty again, Clinical Assistant Professor Sidharth Sah shares his experience with the role. nyudatascience.medium.com/hiring-clini...

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CDS undergrads gathered for a career panel discussing LLMs and industry trends in data science. The event featured Start-Up Advisor Adrian Schofield, Data Science Executive Haftan Eckholdt, Data Scientist Nour Fahmy, Goguma CEO Drew Shives, and Analytics Specialist Lily Franks.

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The Association for Computing Machinery has named 55 Fellows for 2024, including Institute Prof Cláudio Silva in recognition of his contributions to scientific and information visualization and to geometric computing. #NYUTandonMade https://buff.ly/40JyRqT

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CDS alumnus Aditya Singhal recently returned to share his path from our first undergraduate data science cohort to AWS Bedrock, where he builds Knowledge Bases products. After research with CDS' @brendenlake.bsky.social and Todd Gureckis, he's now working on managed RAG systems.

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A group of researchers at Ai2 including CDS PhD student @lambdaviking.bsky.social released OLMo 2, a family of open 7B and 13B parameter language models. The models match or outperform other open-weight models while using fewer FLOPs and providing full transparency. allenai.org/blog/olmo2

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Congrats to CDS MSDS student Yujia Wu and his co-authors, who had their paper "Conditional Prediction ROC Bands for Graph Classification" accepted to AISTATS 2025. Their method improves uncertainty quantification for medical imaging and drug discovery. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15239

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Congratulations to CDS Assistant Professor He He, who received an NSF CAREER award to study how AI writing assistants affect content diversity and develop methods to enhance personal voices in human-AI collaborative writing.

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In an article in Nature Machine Intelligence, CDS Prof. Pascal Wallisch and Ibrahim Sheikh explain Plutarch, an AI course assistant they developed that outperforms ChatGPT by using retrieval-augmented generation and the instructor's own class materials. nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-professo...

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CDS-affiliated Prof. of Math & Atmosphere/Ocean Science Laure Zanna received the Joseph B. Keller and Herbert B. Keller Professorship in Applied Mathematics. She leads M²LInES, combining ML and physics to study ocean dynamics and improve climate models. cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/news...

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CDS Spring 2025 Graduate Career Fair: Mar 3, 2-4:30pm. Employers, connect with top data science talent for free! Register by Feb 18: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (Event exclusive to CDS students.) Questions? Contact Zoë Levin [email protected]

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CDS undergraduate students kicked off the spring semester with our Boba & DS Trivia event. Students tested their data science knowledge while catching up with classmates over bubble tea.

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Love Data Week returns to NYU Feb 10-14! From data anonymization workshops to a WALL-E screening (with pizza! 🍕), explore "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?" through talks, panels & workshops at Bobst, Dibner & online. Full schedule: guides.nyu.edu/love-data #LoveData25

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CDS graduate students kicked off spring semester 2025 with competitive ping pong matches and board game tournaments at our Welcome Back gathering. An afternoon of reconnecting and friendly competition in the Open Space!

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Research led by NYU Grossman med student and AI researcher Daniel Alber in CDS-affiliated Eric Karl Oermann's lab shows that poisoning just 0.001% of a medical AI model’s training data makes it generate dangerous misinformation—while still passing AI tests. nyudatascience.medium.com/tiny-changes...

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Now accepting applications for our Data Science Research Program for Undergraduate Students! Work with CDS faculty on research projects, attend workshops & talks. 10hrs/week, 2025-26 academic year in NYC. Full details: cds.nyu.edu/research-pro...

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At our first CDS Seminar of the semester, CDS Assistant Professor Eunsol Choi (@eunsol.bsky.social) discussed making LLMs more reliable by tackling ambiguous questions and knowledge integration challenges.

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CDS Silver Professor Julia Kempe (@kempelab.bsky.social) is co-organizing the New Frontiers in Associative Memories workshop at ICLR 2025, featuring talks on AM in ML, computer science, transformers & statistical physics. Submit by Feb 14: nfam.vizhub.ai

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Kick off this month right with new data science research! Mengye Ren's Daily Oracle to track AI model prediction ability, Lily Zhang's Training with Annotations for machine translation errors, and more on this month’s #research feature: mailchi.mp/nyu/the-cds-... #datascience

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Today! CDS-affiliated Asst. Prof. @stemartiniani.bsky.social launches a Spanish language lecture series. First talk: Juan J. de Pablo's "Materiales del Futuro: La Revolución de la Inteligencia Artificial". Jan 31, 5pm, 370 Jay St, Brooklyn. Register: forms.gle/UPKzWpeQFCNS...

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CDS' He He, @vishakhpk.bsky.social, & former CDS postdoc Abulhair Saparov, et al, find major AI limits in “Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search.” AI models excel at single-step reasoning but fail in systematic exploration as tasks grow in complexity. nyudatascience.medium.com/even-simple-...

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Tue morning: prepares slides Tue class: improv blackboard lecture Outcome: unexpectedly great lecture. Thu morning: prep handwritten notes Thu class: executes blackboard lecture Students: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 @nyucourant.bsky.social @nyudatascience.bsky.social

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Major congrats to CDS Professor Claudio Silva, who has been named an ACM Fellow, the organization's highest membership grade. He was recognized for his contributions to scientific and information visualization and to geometric computing.

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In a new NYU video, CDS-affiliated Assistant Professor Lerrel Pinto (@lerrelpinto.com) explains why real robots are more like Roombas than science fiction heroes. Pinto's GRAIL lab works to bridge that gap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=esyD...

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AI bias grows when data pruning favors simplicity over fairness. CDS PhD graduate Artem Vysogorets and CDS Silver Professor Julia Kempe (@kempelab.bsky.social) propose DRoP—a method boosting fairness and worst-case accuracy by up to 10%. Learn more: nyudatascience.medium.com/drop-making-...

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CDS Professor @yann-lecun.bsky.social and CDS-affiliated @saining.bsky.social, in a collab with Meta-FAIR, show AI visual generation can emerge naturally from visual understanding. Their MetaMorph model efficiently learns both capabilities with minimal extra training. arxiv.org/abs/2412.14164

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Congrats to CDS faculty member @timrudner.bsky.social, who has received a $694,713 grant from @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social to advance uncertainty quantification in large language models. His work aims to help models better estimate and express uncertainty. nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-faculty-...

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CDS-affiliated Courant Prof. Dennis Shasha, Courant grad student Shela Wu, & Zubair Yacub of the University of Illinois have created dietnerd.org, a tool that responds to diet questions by searching PubMed for peer-reviewed research articles. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

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Congrats to CDS Assoc. Prof. Julia Stoyanovich, who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest U.S. government honor for early-career scientists. She directs the Center for Responsible AI. engineering.nyu.edu/news/julia-s...

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My amazing department at NYU is searching for a Clinical Assistant Professor - Applied Statistics for Social Science Research. This is a mostly teaching-based position, starting Sept 1 2025. (Application review begins Feb 10) I love working here so much! More info here: apply.interfolio.com/162021

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Go read our paper about lazy layers!

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Our recent research on LLM news prediction is featured on NYU CDS blog. @agentic-ai-lab.bsky.social

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CDS Research Scientist @shwartzzzivravid.bsky.social and collaborators at UT Austin found "lazy layers" in deep LLMs where attention patterns degenerate. Their solution: Inheritune - a way to create smaller but equally capable models by inheriting layers from larger ones. arxiv.org/abs/2404.08634

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gemini is pretty good now (Gemini Experimental 1206) and will help students (and me) a lot!

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The Fall 2025 CDS MS Program application closes TODAY at 5pm EST! Visit our website to complete your application: cds.nyu.edu/admissions/m... #DataScience #MSDS #GradSchool #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #TechCareers #CareerInData

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New research by CDS MS student Amelia (Hui) Dai, PhD student Ryan Teehan, and Asst. Prof. Mengye Ren (@mengyer.bsky.social) shows that models’ accuracy on current events drops 20% over time—even when given the source articles. Presented at #NeurIPS2024. nyudatascience.medium.com/language-mod...

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CDS is hiring a Department Administrator to manage faculty affairs, operations, and activities. Hybrid role, $70-75K base. Bachelor's + 3 yrs exp required. Strong project management skills essential. Apply: uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/14397/job

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CDS is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate in solar physics for our new initiative, Polymathic AI, Building Foundation Models for Science. Join our multidisciplinary team developing foundation models for science. $75-95K, NYC-based, apply by Feb 15. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/161867

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