NYU Center for Data Science

NYU Center for Data Science Official page of the Center for Data Science at NYU, home of the Masters in Data Science

The NYU Center for Data Science is a focal point for New York University’s university-wide initiative in data science and statistics. The Center was established to help advance NYU’s goal of creating the country’s leading data science training and research facilities, and arming researchers and professionals with tools to harness the power of big data. The Center’s faculty members and scientists a

re established experts in the field of data science. Their interests are primarily in mathematical statistics, computational statistics and machine learning, optimization and large-scale computation, system design for large-scale data science, and several application areas, such as artificial intelligence, computational biology, computational economics, or quantitative methods in social science. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of data science, the Center collaborates with many departments within NYU, including anthropology, biology, business, computer science, economics, education, information systems, law, linguistics, mathematics, physics, politics, psychology, public health and sociology. As it grows, the Center will attract new scientists and graduate students whose primary research and teaching activities revolve around data science.

Please join us in welcoming Lingjing Kong, joining CDS this fall as an incoming Faculty Fellow.Kong studies how causal p...
09/04/2026

Please join us in welcoming Lingjing Kong, joining CDS this fall as an incoming Faculty Fellow.

Kong studies how causal principles can make machine learning models more transferable, interpretable, and controllable by helping them recover meaningful and reusable mechanisms from complex data.

At CDS, he wants to apply this framework to a harder problem: helping models generalize beyond their training data, from novel situations in world models to scientific hypotheses and experiments.

His longer-term vision combines the empirical power of modern AI with causal models that help models reuse knowledge across environments and help scientists develop explanations they can understand, test, and refine.

He comes to CDS from Carnegie Mellon, where he is completing his PhD.

We’re glad to have him.

https://nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fellow-lingjing-kong-0b2e9e7c01fd

This entry is part of our Meet the Fellow blog series, which introduces and highlights incoming Faculty Fellows at CDS.

New MS and PhD students showed up at 60 Fifth Avenue last week for two days of CDS orientation.The new cohorts got to kn...
09/02/2026

New MS and PhD students showed up at 60 Fifth Avenue last week for two days of CDS orientation.

The new cohorts got to know each other over lunch.

Faculty, current students, and alumni gave them a warm welcome and took their questions.

Everyone came together to talk about what it means to be a good community member at CDS, sit through a citation workshop, and meet the Graduate Student Community-Building Group and Women in Data Science.

Then they were sent out on a scavenger hunt.

Welcome to the semester, everyone!

Welcome back, CDS — the fall semester is starting!Here’s what CDS students should know about health and wellness service...
09/02/2026

Welcome back, CDS — the fall semester is starting!

Here’s what CDS students should know about health and wellness services, our student groups and how to join them, academic and career support, tech setup, and the seminar lineup for the year.

https://nyudatascience.medium.com/back-to-school-fall-2026-0c133d875c42

CDS is excited to welcome students back for the Fall 2026 semester!

We welcomed our incoming Data Science MS and PhD students at our pre-orientation social, giving everyone a chance to mee...
09/01/2026

We welcomed our incoming Data Science MS and PhD students at our pre-orientation social, giving everyone a chance to meet, connect, and get to know their new community before the start of the semester.

From conversations to board games, it was a fun day of making new connections.

AI safety testing increasingly depends on expertise that no single company can assemble on its own.Microsoft has selecte...
08/31/2026

AI safety testing increasingly depends on expertise that no single company can assemble on its own.

Microsoft has selected the NYU Alignment Research Group (ARG) as a member of its new External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA), a global effort to strengthen AI safety and security research.

The group received an unrestricted $25,000 gift to support its work on language models and the longer-term risks of deploying highly capable AI systems.

CDS Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science He He is heading up the project from the ARG side.

EXTRA connects university labs on six continents with industry practitioners.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/07/27/enhancing-ai-security-through-global-ai-red-teaming/

Please join us in welcoming Stephen Zhang, who will join CDS as a Faculty Fellow.Zhang is an applied mathematician who w...
08/28/2026

Please join us in welcoming Stephen Zhang, who will join CDS as a Faculty Fellow.

Zhang is an applied mathematician who works on inverse problems, the mathematical detective work of starting from noisy, messy data and reconstructing the process that produced it, using tools from probabilistic machine learning and generative modelling.

He points those tools at questions across biology and physics, from single-cell genomics to imaging, part of the broader push toward AI for science.

We’re glad to have him.

https://nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fellow-stephen-zhang-cd8549d3fc09

This entry is part of our Meet the Fellow blog series, which introduces and highlights incoming Faculty Fellows at CDS.

Interested in spending the next few years doing data science in New York City?The Fall 2027 applications for the CDS MS ...
08/27/2026

Interested in spending the next few years doing data science in New York City?

The Fall 2027 applications for the CDS MS and PhD programs are coming soon!

CDS students work with faculty on machine learning, natural language processing, climate modeling, and the mathematics underneath all of it.

Applications for both open in late September.

In the meantime, learn more here:

MS info: https://cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-data-science-overview/

PhD info: https://cds.nyu.edu/phd-program-overview/

Climate models currently run on supercomputers, run by specialists.The NYU Earth Systems Institute is working to change ...
08/26/2026

Climate models currently run on supercomputers, run by specialists.

The NYU Earth Systems Institute is working to change that.
The cross-school hub launched in June and is led by CDS’ Laure Zanna, drawing on faculty from across NYU to predict environmental change and help people prepare for it.

The idea: build Earth system models that are faster and more accurate than today’s, run them on a single GPU, and release the weights openly so anyone can download a climate model and run it themselves.

CDS researchers are central to the effort, including Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Grace Lindsay, and incoming faculty member Zongyi Li, whose weather AI model anchors the Institute’s atmospheric modeling.

“We are training scientists to produce research, and the research and the scientists are equally important,” Zanna said.

https://nyudatascience.medium.com/climate-data-for-everyone-nyu-launches-the-earth-systems-institute-07394010df4c

Cutting-edge climate models produce useful data but currently run on supercomputers.

08/25/2026

CDS will host its Fall 2026 Graduate Career Fair on September 22, 2026, from 11:30AM-2:30PM ET. This in-person event offers employers a prime opportunity to connect with our talented data science graduate students and recent alumni.

Held in the CDS open space at 60 Fifth Avenue, the fair showcases the next generation of data scientists trained in cutting-edge techniques. Our students are seeking internships and full-time entry-level roles across various industries.

Employers can register for free, and must do so by September 11 at 5pm. For more information or to sign up, visit the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfi0BmGbURvz_GKhy57RL4CIVNW8QuVZ-gILznfD_hoNBXnMQ/viewform

Note: This event is open exclusively to CDS students.

Questions? Contact CDS Assistant Director of Career Development Zoë Levin at [email protected].

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