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

CDS Clinical Professor of Data Science and Psychology Pascal Wallisch shares advice for prospective students:

- In 2025, data science is AI.
- Don't use ChatGPT for your personal statement.
- Build strong coding fundamentals — they're MORE important now, not less.

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Advice for CDS Prospective Students from Pascal Wallisch

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

Attention Prospective Students! A reminder this is Thursday! Register at ✏️ : nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

CDS Founding Director and Prof. Yann LeCun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) presented "JEPA, World Models, Planning, and the Future of AI" at a recent talk hosted at CDS.

LeCun explored joint embedding predictive architectures and their potential to enable AI systems that can model the world and plan.

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

CDS Faculty Fellow Ilia Sucholutsky (@sucholutsky.bsky.social) and colleagues explore how LLMs could advance the science of collective cognition — and how AI may reshape how we study societies themselves.

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How LLMs Could Transform the Study of Human Groups

CDS Faculty Fellow Ilia Sucholutsky and collaborators outline how LLMs could reshape how we study group cognition at societal scales.

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

CDS students kicked off the year with a Women in Data Science launch party in the Open Space.

The afternoon featured an intro to WiDS' mission, Jeopardy competition, free food, and CDS merch prizes.

The group's events are open to all CDS students throughout the year.

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

CDS' recent Research 101 panel, moderated by Prof. Laure Zanna, brought together:

⭐️CDS Prof. Claudio Silva
⭐️CDS PhD student Claudia Skok Gibbs
⭐️CDS Faculty Fellow Yoav Wald
⭐️CDS PhD alum Meet Barot (@nowittynamesleft.bsky.social)
⭐️Undergrad Anna Ye

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

Check out the channel at www.youtube.com/@AIforthePla...

5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet

Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers on AI for the Planet. AI is not...

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

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

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CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

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

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 · 7d

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.

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

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 · 7d

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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.

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

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 · 7d

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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.

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

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.

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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.

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

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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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.

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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 · 19d

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

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

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 · 19d

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)