The NYU AI School is back this winter, taking place January 10–14, 2022. The course is generously supported by sponsors Prescient Design, a Genentech Accelerator and DeepMind, and organized by the NYU ML² Machine Learning for Language Lab and others at CDS. The school is a free week-long course on…

With over 396 million users, Twitter is one of the largest social media platforms. As the platform continues to grow, there has been a vocal concern about addressing the increase of hate speech on the platform. The most common way of addressing hate speech on social media is by banning…

How can we truly understand intelligence? It’s a challenge that requires a multidisciplinary approach, one with a particular focus on computation. Minds, Brains, & Machines (MBM), a new NYU initiative, seeks to do its part in answering this question by asking two more: how can advances in machine intelligence best…

Meet Darius (Joseph) Stansil, one of our 2021 DeepMind Scholarship recipients. We caught up with Darius to discuss a bit about his experience with the DeepMind scholarship and how it has supported both his educational and professional development. This interview was lightly edited for clarity. Tell us a bit about…

We are thrilled to once again partner with DeepMind on the DeepMind Scholarship for Fall 2022. The program offers a series of scholarships with the objective of providing more opportunity among underrepresented students in higher education AI programs. “AI needs a diverse range of voices, perspectives, and talents, and these…

As New York City begins to light up in preparation for the winter festivities, CDS hosted its first annual 5k for Good on November 19th! …

Led by CDS affiliated faculty Rumi Chunara, NYU has partnered with Brown University in Rhode Island and Moi University in Kenya to spearhead a data science training program called the NYU-Moi Data Science for Social Determinants Training Program (DSSD). The program is one of 19 initiatives that the National Institutes…

This entree is a part of our Meet the Fellow blog series, which introduces and highlights Faculty Fellows who have recently joined CDS. Meet CDS Faculty Fellow Marco Morucci. He holds a PhD in political methodology from Duke University. Marco’s research interests lie in developing methods for empirical political science…

Congratulations to CDS associated faculty Kyle Cranmer! Kyle was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The fellowship was created to recognize members who have either made advances in physics through the publication of original research or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics…