CDS Holds First Open House for Affiliates
The NYU Center for Data Science held the first Open House for CDS Affiliates on November 15th, 2019 in our 7th floor open space.
The Open House gave CDS Affiliated Faculty and other members of the NYU Data Science Community an opportunity to engage with each other and learn about research and educational programs. The event began with networking over drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
CDS Deputy Provost Cybele Raver opened the event with introductory remarks, followed by further remarks from Dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences Antonio Merlo. CDS Director Julia Kempe then presented an overview of CDS before Turing Prize winner and CDS Founding Director Yann LeCun gave a keynote address tracing the history of CDS. These introductory speakers were followed by a series of presentations from members of the CDS community.
CDS Affiliated Faculty and Researchers packaged their research into lighting presentations to offer other attendees a glimpse into their work. Presenters included Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Kyunghyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Joan Bruna, Assistant Professor of Radiology Krzysztof Geras (“Deep Neural Networks Improve Radiologists’ Performance in Breast Cancer Screening”), Professor of Law Katherine Strandburg, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Benjamin Peherstorfer (“From Data to Certified Numerical Simulations of Physical Systems”), Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Itai Yanai (“Reframing Cancer as a Data Mining Problem”), Professor of Chemistry Yingkai Zhang (“Integrated Molecular Modeling and Machine Learning for Drug Design”), Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology Carol Huang, and Associate Professor of Climate Physics Laure Zanna (“Data Science for Climate Physics”).
The event closed with another opportunity to mingle with other attendees. This allowed Affiliates to converse about presentations, make connections across departments, and engage with our growing community of CDS affiliates and other data science practitioners across NYU.
By Mary Oliver
