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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 20h

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...

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 23h

Apply to the PhD program: cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissio...

PhD in Data Science: Admissions Requirements | NYU CDS

Discover the PhD in Data Science requirements at NYU. Learn about deadlines, required degrees, coursework, and application details for Fall 2025 admissions.

cds.nyu.edu

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 23h

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...

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 1d

Apply to the MS program: cds.nyu.edu/admissions/m...

Master’s in Data Science: Admissions Requirements

Review the master's in data science requirements at NYU. Learn about deadlines, necessary documents, and prerequisites to apply for our competitive program.

cds.nyu.edu

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 1d

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

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 4d

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.

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 6d

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

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 6d

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

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 7d

Training required iterating through hundreds of models using @msftresearch.bsky.social Azure compute clusters. The collaboration will support future research in multi-modal manipulation and training robot models at scale.

Details + open source: robotutilitymodels.com

Robot Utility Models: General Policies for Zero-Shot Deployment in New Environments

Robot Utility Models are trained on a diverse set of environments and objects, and then can be deployed in novel environments without any further data or training.

robotutilitymodels.com

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Download and Deploy: Building Robots That Work Anywhere

CDS-affiliated faculty Lerrel Pinto and collaborators built robot models that succeed in new settings without retraining.

nyudatascience.medium.com

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 8d

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."

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Lectures On Tap offers bite-sized learning at local bars in New York City | abc7ny.com

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 11d

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].

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 12d

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...

Children Beat AI at a Simple Test of Scientific Thinking

Children’s causal reasoning outpaces today’s LMs in complex “AND” scenarios, but a new hypothesis‑sampling method helps even the odds.

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 12d

Baek graduated in 2022 and is now the CEO of Asclep Inc.

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 12d

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)

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 13d

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.

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 14d

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...

Meet the Fellow: Jaume de Dios Pont

New CDS Faculty Fellow Jaume de Dios Pont brings a mathematician’s perspective to AI.

nyudatascience.medium.com

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 15d

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

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 15d

📷 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

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 15d

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.

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 20d

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.

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 21d

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...

Beyond Chain of Thought: How Padding Tokens Give Transformers More Power Without Sacrificing Speed

Like chain of thought, padding tokens can expand the computational power of transformers.

nyudatascience.medium.com