Even with AI tools, job recruiters believe they make the hiring call. But a new CDS/Tandon study finds those AI tools have a much bigger impact than their users realize. By CDS’ Emily Black, Tandon’s @rosiebellini.bsky.social, and Sajel Surati. nyudatascience.medium.com/ai-shapes-hi...

This week NYU is hosting nearly 1,000 scientists working on brains, minds, and machines for CCN 2026, the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference. Come by: 2026.ccneuro.org 1/3

Starting a CDS master’s this fall? CDS Assoc. Prof. Greg Durrett (@gregdnlp.bsky.social) recommends a summer spent on the fundamentals: ✅ linear algebra ✅calculus ✅probability ✅statistics

Pancreatic cancer is often diagnosed late. Too late. Information that could help researchers to better understand the early signs is already sitting in radiology reports. CDS PhD student Ebrahim Rasromani's recent work discusses the use of LLMs to extract this information.

CDS grad students and alumni gathered at a bar near CDS recently for a summer happy hour. Incoming students met returning students and alumni over food and drinks ahead of the fall semester. Thanks to everyone who came out.

Starting your master’s at CDS this fall? CDS Dir. Graduate Studies for PhD Program/Admissions Jonathan Niles-Weed suggests refreshing linear algebra and multivariable calculus over the summer. The program is quantitative, and that math shows up everywhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrP...

Advice for incoming CDS MS students: refresh your math over the summer, with Jonathan Niles-Weed

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How do you read a menu in a language you've never studied? A warm welcome to @thomashikaru.bsky.social, joining CDS this fall as an incoming Faculty Fellow. He models how people handle typos, language barriers, and other places language breaks down. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

Meet the Fellow: Thomas Hikaru Clark

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

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Starting a CDS master’s this fall? Incoming CDS Clinical Assistant Professor Sam Deng says get fluent in the core math (calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics) and in Python before the semester starts.

A CDS Capstone team got their tokenization method, JOLT, accepted to the Tokenization Workshop at COLM 2026, all from a two-semester project. Companies, nonprofits, and research labs, visit cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-d... for more info and to submit a proposal by Aug 16.

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Learn about NYU’s unique capstone course where MS students at CDS solve real-world problems in their final year.

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Welcome to Unai Fischer Abaigar, joining CDS this fall as an incoming Faculty Fellow. He studies the prediction systems public institutions use to allocate scarce resources, and whether those systems are the right tool for the job. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

Meet the Fellow: Unai Fischer Abaigar

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

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When a model learns from data, does it also learn some of it by heart? Welcome to Simone Bombari, joining CDS this fall as an incoming Faculty Fellow. He works on the theory of deep learning, studying privacy and memorization in large models. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

Meet the Fellow: Simone Bombari

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

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Attention companies, nonprofits, and research labs! The deadline to submit a proposal for the CDS Capstone Project is now Sunday, August 16! cds.nyu.edu/masters-in-d...

LLMs fall for confirmation bias: they test evidence that confirms their guess, not evidence that breaks it. NYU’s CS MS alum Ayush Rajesh Jhaveri, with CDS’ @eunsol.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social & Anthony GX-Chen show a fix built for humans helps. nyudatascience.medium.com/llms-fall-fo...

LLMs Fall for Confirmation Bias, and a Fix Designed for Humans Helps

A doctor who settles on a diagnosis early tends to order the tests that confirm the hunch rather than the ones that might rule it out, and…

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Joshua Tucker, CDS-affiliated Prof. of Politics, in Nature on AI and the social sciences: The tools can churn out fast, fragile findings from survey data — but for about $100/month they also give "any researcher … almost limitless research assistance." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them?

The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.

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Our MS Admissions Ambassadors recently hosted a Housing Information Session for incoming MS students joining this fall. docs.google.com/presentation...

CDS MS alum and incoming PhD student Yaozhong (Harry) Huang trained a deep learning model to generate FLAIR brain MRI from T1 and T2 scans at 3T, skipping a separate scan and cutting time in the machine. With Prof. Riccardo Lattanzi of NYU Langone.

An MRI scanner forgets you the moment you leave, rebuilding every image from scratch. CDS PhD student Arda Atalık and advisors Sumit Chopra and @danielsodickson.bsky.social on reuse a patient’s old scans to reconstruct a new one from ~5% of the data. nyudatascience.medium.com/mri-with-mem...

MRI With Memory: Reusing a Patient’s Old Scans to Image Faster, More Cheaply

An MRI scanner has no memory. Each time a patient lies down inside one, it builds an image from nothing, even if it has scanned that same…

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The standard way to teach probability and statistics left students confused. CDS Assoc. Prof. of Math and Data Science Carlos Fernandez-Granda restructured his course to pair each concept with real data, and wrote a book about it. cds.nyu.edu/probability-...

The deadline to submit a proposal for the CDS Capstone Project is fast approaching! Projects can be submitted through August 2. Tackle your real-world data challenges by partnering with our master’s students this fall.

Super excited about joining the interdisciplinary research environment at CDS! Plus more fun thinking about how to guide students through concepts, approaches, and scientific philosophies in working with complex data... and sticking around NYU/NYC for longer :)

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How does the brain adapt to new situations on the fly, when AI still can't? Incoming CDS Faculty Fellow Harsha Gurnani (@harshag.bsky.social) studies the dynamics behind that flexibility: how brains reuse old skills instead of rebuilding from scratch. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

How does the brain adapt to new situations on the fly, when AI still can't? Incoming CDS Faculty Fellow Harsha Gurnani (@harshag.bsky.social) studies the dynamics behind that flexibility: how brains reuse old skills instead of rebuilding from scratch. nyudatascience.medium.com/meet-the-fel...

Meet the Fellow: Harsha Gurnani

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

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The same protest photo can read as dangerous to one viewer, legitimate to another. CDS Faculty Fellow Elena Sirotkina built a classifier that predicts how a political image splits its audience along identity lines. nyudatascience.medium.com/a-new-classi...

A New Classifier Profiles a Political Image by the Identities That Divide Over It

The same photograph of a protest can strike one viewer as dangerous unrest and another as legitimate dissent, and which way a person reads…

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Should every data science class balance theory and application the same way? CDS Assoc. Prof. of Music Technology & DS Brian McFee said it depends. Proofs in a stats class, hands-on building in a capstone. Either way, in a data science class, you're getting a blend of both.

The July CDS Research Feature has dropped! Haoxu Huang and Weicheng Zhu develop head CT foundation model that outperforms commercial alternatives, Mengye Ren contends that AI must live a life if it is ever to have a self, and more on this month’s research feature. t.e2ma.net/webview/t974...

Howard Huang develops head CT foundational model that outperforms standard alternatives, Mengye Ren reveals a technical limitation in LLMs, and more!

The cheap, fast scans that emergency rooms use to check for strokes... NYU # The CDS Monthly Research Feature ## July 2026 ## Head CT Foundation Model Outperforms Commercial Alternatives, Detects Dise...

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AI safety leans on reading a model’s chain of thought to spot misbehavior, but only if the model can’t hide it. CDS MS alum Yueh-Han Chen and CDS Assoc. Prof. He He find that, luckily, reasoning models struggle to control their own reasoning. nyudatascience.medium.com/ai-models-ca...

AI Models Can’t Easily Hide Their Reasoning, and That’s Good for AI Safety

Some of the most promising work in AI safety rests on a convenient accident: today’s reasoning models tend to think out loud. They narrate…

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"If you can tell where the theory ends and the practice begins, I already failed." CDS Clinical Professor of Data Science, Psychology and Neural Science on why he treats data science teaching like cooking a soup: the ingredients shouldn't be tasted separately. youtu.be/Hj3gOMFVPfY

Why data science isn't just math or computer science

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CDS PhD student Ebrahim Rasromani, NYU Grossman Asst. Prof. Yiqiu Shen, and colleagues show that LLMs can accurately extract pancreatic cyst features from radiology reports, turning clinical text into data for early detection research. nyudatascience.medium.com/pancreatic-c...

🎉Congratulations to CDS Assistant Director of Academic and Student Affairs Francheska Jimenez on receiving NYU's Give-A-Violet Award, which honors staff who go above and beyond for the University community.🥂

What do partners get from a CDS Capstone Project? Three Fall 2025 teams worked with the UNDP and Kensho on a reef-fish detection model now featured by the UN, a new tokenization algorithm, and an agentic procurement audit tool. nyudatascience.medium.com/audit-workfl...

Audit Workflows, Reef Cameras, Tokenizer Research: Three CDS Capstone Projects

Most graduate-level coursework ends with a final exam or paper. The CDS Capstone Project ends with research the UN features on its blog…

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Congratulations to our graduating CDS students at every level: undergraduate, master's, and PhD! 🎓 You crossed the stage at NYU commencement and the GSAS PhD graduation this spring, and we couldn't be prouder! 🎉 Here's to what comes next! 💜