THE NYU CENTER FOR DATA SCIENCE

Pioneering Data Science Education and Research

The NYU Center for Data Science (CDS) is where data science education and cutting-edge research come together. We are a community of 30+ interdisciplinary faculty, almost 650 undergraduate students, over 330 MS students, and nearly 60 PhD students, collaborating across research areas ranging from high-dimensional statistical inference to AI and the social implications of technology. CDS is home to NYU’s comprehensive data science degree programs at all levels, including the world’s first data science MS program.

Research

Soft Tokens, Hard Truths: A New Approach to Training Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models

Ditching Backpropagation: A New Method Mimics How Brains Learn to Make Decisions

When More Thinking Makes Things Worse: Study Reveals the Hidden Pitfalls of Long AI Reasoning

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Events

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