We’re excited to announce that the CDS Alumni Council has officially launched. The mission of the Council is to enhance alumni engagement through an array of career development programs and social events, CDS’ curriculum, student experience, and student-alumni relationships. As we’ve now reached our 10-year anniversary as an academic program…

Get a glimpse at what’s in store for this semester’s lectures! Throughout the year, CDS community members have opportunities to attend talks by researchers in the field of data science. Organized by professors, faculty fellows, and PhD students, the speaker seminar series offers insight into topics from natural language processing…

The research provides a challenging benchmark for testing models’ understanding of images An essential function of computer vision is to understand and reason over visual scenes. Several tasks have been developed to test how well current models understand the contents of an image, but these benchmarks have their limits. In…

A study led by Clinical Associate Professor of Data Science and Psychology Pascal Wallisch finds it only takes a few seconds, offering new insights into cognitive processing research Major music platforms like iTunes play snippets of songs to entice customer downloads and purchases, but can listeners successfully determine if they…

The paper explores the “double-edged sword” of unintended consequences and potential benefits the technology has in clinical settings In an editorial “ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models Are Double-edged Swords” in the journal Radiology, CDS PhD student Yiqiu (Artie) Shen, advised by CDS Affiliated Professor Krzysztof J. Geras and CDS…

The project was made possible in partnership with the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) and the Women’s Justice Institute (WJI) CDS MS Students Raj Choudhary and Xu Han developed an online Data Indicator Tool with the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, which compiles Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) prison…

The project applies machine learning to astronomical image coaddition Harlan Hutton, Jenna Eubank, and Harshitha Palegar have taken data science to the stars with their paper “Astronomical Image Coaddition with Bundle-Adjusting Radiance Fields”, which was accepted to the NeurIPS 2022 Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop held in New…

As NYU students make their way back to campus after the holidays, CDS is excited for the new semester of data science to get underway! To help our community members get back into the swing of things, we’ve compiled an updated list of university resources. Updated COVID-19 Guidance While NYU…

The visual perception expert explains the science behind blivets, motion-induced blindness, mirages, the viral dress image, and more When Clinical Associate Professor of Data Science and Psychology Pascal Wallisch received an email from Wired looking for “tech support experts” he almost didn’t respond as his initial thought was: “aren’t we…