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 Bryant J. Moy, who will be joining us this July. Moy will also be taking on a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of…

We recently welcomed our first-ever summer (and third overall) CURP cohort. CURP, the CDS Undergraduate Research Program, is a research mentorship program that provides talented students with the opportunity to work in-depth with faculty who advise, encourage, and support them while learning alongside a community of their peers. …

Wu’s work on the “greedy nature of learning” in deep neural networks will enhance available tools for multi-modal learning A project led by CDS PhD student Nan Wu, will appear at the 2022 Thirty-ninth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) this July. Wu’s project titled “Characterizing and Overcoming the Greedy…

The question of whether AI can perform as well as humans — if not more so — is often raised in public discussion, whether it’s a dialogue about self-driving cars or strategies for policing social media. “Differences between human and machine perception in medical diagnosis”, led by CDS PhD student…

Crocs, often thought of as the ultimate fashion no-no, have recently become a point of public discussion, thanks to the visual illusion created by CDS Clinical Faculty Pascal Wallisch and his collaborator Michael Karlovich in their project “Disagreeing about Crocs and socks: Creating profoundly ambiguous color displays”. The illusion, featured…

Congratulations to CDS Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Data Science, Brian McFee, for recently receiving the 2021–2022 Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award. The award is given to full-time faculty members in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development who exemplify excellence in their teaching. …

The CDS Graduate Student Community Building Group (GSCBG) recently held the first ever Neural Networking event for our graduate students and alumni last month on April 15, 2022. The event was facilitated by GSCBG President, Sarvesh Patki. Event speakers included CDS PhD student, Omar Mahmood, CDS alum, Yash Deshpande, and…

As the cherry blossoms begin to bloom and the weather starts to get warmer, it is finally graduation season at NYU. We are so excited to be sending off our 2022 CDS graduates in traditional NYU fashion at the Yankee Stadium! Graduation marks the end of one chapter, and the…

CDS Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Andrew Gordon Wilson, recently received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, under the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Program, for his project “New Frontiers in Bayesian Deep Learning”. Bayesian methods express the belief that we should represent all possible solutions…