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Official account of the NYU Center for Data Science (CDS), the home of the Undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. programs in data science.
New York, NY
Joined December 2013
Key skills: teaching yourself things, keeping up with research literature without being overwhelmed, staying sharp on the basics — foundational knowledge lets you understand any new tool.
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CDS Assistant Professor Grace Lindsay shares essential skills for data science grads in conversation with MS Admissions Ambassador Becca Rinehart. Gain the skills needed to succeed as a data scientist. Applications for our graduate programs are open: https://t.co/9GXdTFMAmg
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CDS Prof @KempeLab and collaborators show that soft-token training on chain of thought + hard-token inference yields better performance and robustness in LLM reasoning tasks — with RL at the core. As @NatashaEve4 put it: “Best to train soft, infer hard!” https://t.co/rDIarWTNBM
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In large language models, training the CoT phase with soft tokens yields more diverse reasoning paths and better generalization.
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Season's Greetings from CDS! We're inspired by our community's achievements this year, and we're celebrating becoming part of the new @NYU_Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science. We wish you a season of warmth, happiness, and continued discovery.
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CDS Prof. @ylecun has received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, alongside Bengio, Hinton, Hopfield, Li, Huang & Dally, for work foundational to modern machine learning. https://t.co/sLkuebCznd
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Done with the semester! 🥳🥳🥳 We had an oral exam… where students were asking any question to Yann. It's always refreshing to have these dynamic sessions, where you get your intellectual curiosity satisfied on the spot. 🤓🤓🤓 And then, so many photos with the students! 🥹🥹🥹
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Alumni Advice: Software Engineer Adi Singhal graduated in 2022 with a CS/DS major and now works on agentic AI at Amazon. His advice? Sit in the first row. Professors get to know you better, you ask more questions, and the cascading effects extend far beyond that single class.
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PhD applications for Fall 2026 are due TODAY at 5pm EST! ⏰‼️ Apply Now:
⏰ DEADLINE EXTENDED: PhD in Data Science applications for Fall 2026 are now due Thursday Dec 11 at 5:00pm EST‼️ ✏️ Apply now! https://t.co/68c3Dzlyv2
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Welcoming new faculty to CDS! This fall, we welcomed Greg Durrett (@gregd_nlp). In Fall 2026, we'll welcome Jaume Vives-i-Bastida (@jaumevivesb), Zongyi Li (@zongyili_nyu), Juan Carlos Perdomo Silva, and Pratyusha Sharma (@pratyusha_PS).
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CDS Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Mengye Ren (@mengyer) and co-author Frank Wu introduce ARQ, a new learning algorithm that skips backpropagation in favor of a more biologically plausible and computationally efficient method. https://t.co/j9vUVOGD1v
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Mengye Ren and Frank Wu introduce a biologically-inspired learning algo that outperforms traditional methods without using backpropagation.
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Bingo, beers, and brainy conversations! 🎉 CDS grad students hit up GCBG's networking happy hour, where MS & PhD students mixed, mingled, and battled for CDS swag.
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Alumni Advice: Data Scientist Abhinav Krishnan graduated from the Master's program in 2025 and now works at BCG. His advice? Tap into the alumni network. CDS alumni around the world want to stay involved and have a lot to offer current students.
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Fernandez-Granda explained how this method revealed previously unobserved atomic-level dynamics in catalytic nanoparticles from electron microscopy data.
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CDS Interim Director Carlos Fernandez-Granda presented on AI-powered denoising for scientific discovery at a recent colloquium. Read more: https://t.co/VJNr04cRuI
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Alumni Advice: Daniel Drafta graduated in 2023 with a CS/DS joint major and now studies biomedical informatics at NYU's med school. His advice? Stay open to changing directions. Your interests evolve, so trust your gut instinct — you'll ultimately make the right choice.
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CDS alumni Jenny Le (Rockstar Games), Yihao Larry Zhong (Nvidia), and Daniel Drafta (biomedical informatics) shared career stories at a recent undergrad panel. Key advice: ✅Embrace imposter syndrome ✅Leverage NYC connections ✅Focus on realistic skill matches in job searches
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📹 If you missed our admissions info session, view the recording here: https://t.co/IOCoQjDrRO 📚 Program areas of study include machine learning and perception, science and applications, our medical school track, and more!
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⏰ DEADLINE EXTENDED: PhD in Data Science applications for Fall 2026 are now due Thursday Dec 11 at 5:00pm EST‼️ ✏️ Apply now! https://t.co/68c3Dzlyv2
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Their paper won a spotlight award at the NeurIPS 2025 Efficient Reasoning workshop.
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Models that think longer often perform worse. CDS PhD student Yunzhen Feng (@feeelix_feng) & CDS Silver Professor Julia Kempe (@KempeLab) identify three key factors: shorter reasoning, fewer reviews, and less exploration all predict better performance. https://t.co/dsGn2cvXCq
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