CDS undergrads: they asked the big questions, debugged the messy code, and made it to the finish line. Congrats to the class of 2025!

Capstones completed. Models trained. Credits earned. Big congrats to the CDS master’s grads—ready to take data science into the world, one project at a time.

They passed quals, taught classes, defended proposals, and finished the dissertation. Congrats to the newest CDS PhDs! Your journey is just getting started.

CDS-affiliated Prof. Itai Yanai co-hosts Woodstock.Bio² + Night Science (June 10–13, Prague & Bohemia), a conference blending science, music, and creativity. It’s a celebration of “night science”—the exploratory side of research. Details: woodstock.img.cas.cz

CDS Professor Yann LeCun sees the end of large language models, claiming they'll be obsolete in five years. In Newsweek, he explains why current AI lacks real-world understanding—and what a smarter system could look like.   newsweek.com/ai-impact-inte…

CDS PhD graduates Samuel Stanton & Omar Mahmood, CDS Prof @khyuncho, former CDS co-Director Richard Bonneau, and others developed a machine learning system that achieved up to 100x improvements in antibody binding. nyudatascience.medium.com/making-drugs-w…

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with my graduate alma mater NYU Center for Data Science about my personal experience building a lab-in-the-loop system for therapeutic antibody lead optimization with my amazing colleagues Genentech. Active learning is a leap of faith!

CDS Student Research Showcase: Undergrad Andrew Yan is surveying (forms.gle/RTtByPba3uw6nr…) NYU students' commute experiences—including cost, preferences, & satisfaction factors. He hopes the data will "improve your commute experience for the next school year and going forward."

Releasing the Energy-Book 🔋 from its first appendix's chapter, where I explain how I create my figures. 🎨 Feel free to report errors via the issues' tracker, contribute to the exercises, and show me what you can draw, via the discussion section. 🥳 github.com/Atcold/Energy-…

CDS Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch was selected as one of only four NYU Trailblazers for 2025! His presentation explored what we learned from disagreeing about #theDress for over a decade. His research at Fox Lab examines how people construct their subjective reality.

CDS Prof. Yann LeCun and CDS-affiliated Asst. Prof. Saining Xie show that visual self-supervised models, when scaled to 7B parameters and trained on 2B images, can match or outperform CLIP on VQA tasks—without any language supervision. Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01017

CDS Asst. Prof. Mengye Ren (Mengye Ren), Courant PhD students Alex N. Wang and Christopher Hoang, and Yann LeCun introduce PooDLe: a self-supervised learning method enhancing AI vision in real-world videos by improving small object detection. nyudatascience.medium.com/learning-to-se…

🚨 New preprint: "Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Risks of AI Thought Partnerships"! 🚨 We propose a framework for understanding unique risks posed by AI thought partners (AITPs)—AI systems that collaborate with humans on complex reasoning tasks, not just simple tool use

CDS alumni came together recently for our Spring Alumni Happy Hour.  Former students shared career updates and reconnected with classmates who've gone on to work across data science, AI, and tech. Always inspiring to see our community's continued growth and mutual support.