CDS Faculty Fellows and Moore-Sloan Fellows at CDS move on to lead research agendas across academia, industry, and government.
Alumni of these programs now hold faculty positions at Yale, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, École Polytechnique, and Cambridge. Others have joined institutions that are actively shaping the future of AI and data science, including OpenAI, Meta, and the FDA.
Previous Fellows and their subsequent positions:
- Jason Altschuler: Assistant Professor, UPenn, Department of Statistics and Data Science
- Pablo Barbera: Research Scientist, Meta
- Umang Bhatt: Assistant Professor and Fellow in Computer Science, University of Cambridge, King’s College, Cambridge
- Alberto Bietti: Flatiron
- Dan Cervone: Data Scientist, Zelus Analytics
- Jonathan Colner: Assistant Professor, American University
- Djellel Eddine Difallah: Assistant Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi
- Vincent Divol: AI Fellow, Universite PSL
- Marylou Gabrie: Assistant Professor, École Polytechnique, Paris
- Michael Gill: Lead Software Engineer, Facebook
- Bruno Goncalves: Head of Data Science, North Island Ventures
- Andrew Halterman: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
- Yiding (Sophie) Hao: Moorman-Simon Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science, Boston University
- Mark Ho: Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science
- Daniela Huppenkothen: Associate Director and DIRAC Fellow
- Najoung Kim: Assistant Professor, Boston University
- Cory McCartan: Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State
- Byung-Doh Oh: Tenure-track faculty position, Nanyang Technological University
- Qing Qu: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
- Angela Radulescu: Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Tim Rudner: Vijil – Researcher (starting 9/1/25); Cambridge – Junior Research Fellowship; University of Toronto (starting July 2026) – Assistant Professor in Department of Statistics, University of Cambridge (2025-2026); University of Toronto (starting in 2026)
- Sebastian Schelter: Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
- Sarah Shugars: Assistant Professor, Rutgers Department of Communication
- Berfin Simsek: FRF (Postdoctoral Fellow), Flatiron CCM
- Elena Sizikova: Staff Fellow, FDA
- Anton Strezhnev: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
- Soledad Villar: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins
- Sebastian Wagner-Carena: Anthropic
- George Wood: Royal Bank of England
- Ilias Zadik: Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
- Wenda Zhou: Member of Research Staff, OpenAI
These placements reflect CDS’s investment in building an environment where independent research can take root. Fellows are selected for their originality and breadth; they leave CDS with peer-reviewed publications, active collaborations, and the experience of working across disciplines. Many go on to launch labs of their own, join tenure-track departments, or contribute to applied research teams in academia, industry, and public institutions.
This page is updated periodically. If you’re a former fellow and would like your placement listed or updated, contact cds-communications@nyu.edu.