NYU Center for Data Science

The standard way to teach probability and statistics left students confused. CDS Assoc. Prof. of Math and Data Science Carlos Fernandez-Granda restructured his course to pair each concept with real data, and wrote a book about it. cds.nyu.edu/probability-an…

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Previous Capstone mentor Cristina Polizu of S&P Global Ratings praised our students' diligence. "It was a pleasure to supervise a S&P Global Ratings project on Bitcoin price analysis and prediction. The students demonstrated exceptional diligence and a high level of methodological rigor throughout the project. Given the increasing complexity of cryptocurrency markets, this was a challenging undertaking. I am incredibly proud of the students for their hard work and their ability to tackle such a sophisticated domain especially because technological shifts, market sentiment, and regulatory changes constantly influence price and liquidity dynamics."

The deadline to submit a proposal for the CDS Capstone Project is fast approaching! Projects can be submitted through August 2. Tackle your real-world data challenges by partnering with our master’s students this fall. Our students bring expertise in #AI, #MachineLearning, #nlp, and advanced #analytics: cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-dat… @MSKCancerCenter @DroiceLabs @NewYorkLife @HyperscienceAI @NYU_Courant @SPGlobalRatings @UNDP @accern_ai @MLS @WorldBankGroup

"Given the increasing complexity of cryptocurrency markets, this was a challenging undertaking. I am incredibly proud of the students for their hard work and their ability to tackle such a sophisticated domain especially because technological shifts, market sentiment, and regulatory changes constantly influence price and liquidity dynamics."

How does the brain adapt to new situations on the fly, when AI still can't? Incoming CDS Faculty Fellow Harsha Gurnani studies the dynamics behind that flexibility: how brains reuse old skills instead of rebuilding from scratch. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fello…

The same protest photo can read as dangerous to one viewer, legitimate to another. CDS Faculty Fellow Elena Sirotkina (@sirotkina_lene) built a classifier that predicts how a political image splits its audience along identity lines. nyudatascience.medium.com/a-new-classifi…

Should every data science class balance theory and application the same way? CDS Assoc. Prof. of Music Technology & DS Brian McFee said it depends. Proofs in a stats class, hands-on building in a capstone. Either way, in a data science class, you're getting a blend of both.

The July CDS #Research Feature has dropped! Howard Huang and @jackzhu_zwc develop head CT foundation model that outperforms commercial alternatives, @mengyer contends that #AI must live a life if it is ever to have a self, and more on this month’s research feature. #datascience t.e2ma.net/webview/t9746h…

AI safety leans on reading a model’s chain of thought to spot misbehavior, but only if the model can’t hide it. CDS MS alum @jcyhc_ai and CDS Assoc. Prof. @hhexiy find that, luckily, reasoning models struggle to control their own reasoning. nyudatascience.medium.com/ai-models-cant…

"If you can tell where the theory ends and the practice begins, I already failed." CDS Clinical Professor of Data Science, Psychology and Neural Science (@Pascallisch) on why he treats data science teaching like cooking a soup: the ingredients shouldn't be tasted separately.

CDS PhD student Ebrahim Rasromani (@erasromani), NYU Grossman Asst. Prof. Yiqiu Shen (@ArtieShen), and colleagues show that LLMs can accurately extract pancreatic cyst features from radiology reports, turning clinical text into data for early detection research. nyudatascience.medium.com/pancreatic-can…

🎉Congratulations to CDS Assistant Director of Academic and Student Affairs Francheska Jimenez on receiving NYU's Give-A-Violet Award, which honors staff who go above and beyond for the University community.🥂

What do partners get from a CDS Capstone Project? Three Fall 2025 teams worked with the UNDP and Kensho on a reef-fish detection model now featured by the UN, a new tokenization algorithm, and an agentic procurement audit tool. nyudatascience.medium.com/audit-workflow…

How do you teach machine learning without losing sight of the real world? CDS Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science Grace Lindsay blends deep learning concepts with applications from climate science to human psychology.

Congratulations to our graduating CDS students at every level: undergraduate, master's, and PhD! 🎓 You crossed the stage at NYU commencement and the GSAS PhD graduation this spring, and we couldn't be prouder! 🎉 Here's to what comes next! 💜

As language models get better at predicting the next word, they get worse at modeling how people read. New from CDS Associate Professor Tal Linzen (@tallinzen) and former CDS Faculty Fellow Byung-Doh Oh (@byungdoh). nyudatascience.medium.com/why-better-lan…

Why do prominent thinkers keep concluding AI is conscious? CDS-affiliated faculty Leif Weatherby (@leifweatherby) argues in the New York Times that the output of chatbots is culture, and reading it takes more than technical training. nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opi…

How do coding agents transfer memories across domains? New work from @kangsan_kim_, with CDS' @mengyer, @kchonyc, & @ylecun, plus collaborators, finds reusable reasoning strategies beat detailed code traces — +3.7% across six benchmarks. arxiv.org/abs/2604.14004