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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.

Joined December 2013
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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/42…
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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…

AI Models Can’t Easily Hide Their Reasoning, and That’s Good for AI Safety

Some of the most promising work in AI safety rests on a convenient accident: today’s reasoning models tend to think out loud. They narrate…

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"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.
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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/pa…
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🎉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.🥂
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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/au…

Audit Workflows, Reef Cameras, Tokenizer Research: Three CDS Capstone Projects

Most graduate-level coursework ends with a final exam or paper. The CDS Capstone Project ends with research the UN features on its blog…

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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.
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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! 💜
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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/wh…

Why Better Language Models Make Worse Models of Human Reading

As language models have gotten better at guessing the next word in a sentence, they have gotten worse at predicting how people actually…

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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/opini…

Opinion | Why We Keep Tricking Ourselves Into Thinking A.I. Is Conscious

Notable thinkers keep telling us they think A.I. is conscious. That doesn’t mean it’s true.

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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

Memory Transfer Learning: How Memories are Transferred Across...

Memory-based self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for coding agents. However, existing approaches typically restrict memory utilization to homogeneous task domains, failing to...

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The research was also covered in the Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/world/china/the-hidd…

The Hidden Chinese Influence in AI

Plus, why artificial intelligence grows more regime-friendly as press freedom declines. | WSJ China for May 19

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Prof. Tucker appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about it:  cnbc.com/video/2026/05/15/ny…

NYU's Joshua Tucker on the politics of training AI

Joshua Tucker, New York University Center for Social Media & Politics co-director, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss details of the university's new research showing that AI chatbots generate more...

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Commercial models gave more favorable answers about Chinese politics 70-80% of the time when asked in Chinese vs. English; similar patterns were found in other countries with low levels of media freedom. nyu.edu/about/news-publicati…
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"Institutional influence": how governments shape AI chatbots through the training data they ingest — with measurable effects on what the models actually say. A new Nature study by CDS-affiliated Prof. Joshua Tucker (@j_a_tucker) and CSMAP's Sol Messing (@SolomonMg).  🧵
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1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @Nature today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Can a grammar book replace training data for AI translation? NYU Linguistics PhD student Jackson Petty (@jowenpetty), CDS Assoc. Prof. Tal Linzen (@tallinzen), and CDS MS student Jaulie Goe tested this with synthetic languages. nyudatascience.medium.com/ca…

Can AI Learn a Language from a Textbook?

Most of the world’s 7,000 languages will never have enough written text online to train an AI translation system. However, linguists have…

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🎓 Congrats to all our newest CDS MS graduates! Clinical Professor Pascal Wallisch (@Pascallisch), Director of Graduate Studies Brian McFee, and MS Admissions Ambassador Vidhi Manek, graduating herself, addressed the class. ✨ The field is lucky to have you. 🥂
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Are chemists done & is NMR solved? Not so fast! 🤔 Outperforming software is not the goal, to be truly useful, AI needs to operate like a human chemist under real lab conditions. ✨Check our #ICML2026 AI4Science Spotlight! 🔗OpenReview: openreview.net/forum?id=hsfH… Thread 🧵 (1/7)
Anthropic
 @AnthropicAI
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New Anthropic Science Blog: Making Claude a chemist. To manipulate a molecule, chemists first need to understand its structure. Their main tool is NMR spectroscopy. We found Opus 4.7 matches—and on some tasks beats—dedicated NMR software. Read more: anthropic.com/research/makin…
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🎓✨ Hats off to our newest PhDs! CDS hosted an in-person graduation lunch reception for students graduating in May and August 2026, joined by faculty guests for an afternoon of food, toasts, and well-earned recognition. 🥂 Congrats to all our grads!
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