Center for Data Science Faculty Research Areas:

Afonso S. Bandeira
Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Applied mathematics
• Optimization
• Probability
• Information theory
• Signal processing
• Mathematics of data science
• Theoretical computer science
• Statistics

Richard Bonneau
Professor of Biology, Computer Science, & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Systems biology and protein modeling.

Sam Bowman
Assistant Professor of Linguistics & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Natural language processing
• Artificial neural networks
• Computational semantics

Joan Bruna
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Machine learning
• Signal processing
• High-dimensional statistics

Kyunghyun Cho
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Natural language processing (NLP)
• Application of data science in medicine

Vasant Dhar
Professor of Information Systems & Data Science; Director of Graduate Studies for Center for Data Science PhD Program
Research Areas:

• Prediction
• Data mining
• Artificial intelligence
• Decision making

Jacob Eisenstein  (starting Fall 2019)
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Data Science

• Natural language processing
• Computational sociolinguistics
• Computational social science

Rob Fergus
Associate Professor of Computer Science & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Computer vision
• Large-scale object recognition
• Deep learning
• Machine learning
• Statistical methods in astronomy
• Computational photography

Carlos Fernandez-Granda
Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Optimization-based methods in neuroscience, computer vision, and medical imaging
• Applications of data science in medicine

Juliana Freire
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Big data
• Data analysis and visualization
• Provenance management and analytics
• Computational reproducibility
• Scientific data management
• Large-scale information integration
• Data quality
• Web information retrieval and analysis
• Web crawling
• Spatio-temporal analytics

He He (starting Fall 2019)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
Reseach Areas

• Natural language understanding
• Dialogue and communication
• Machine learning

Jennifer Hill
Professor of Applied Statistics & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Causal inference
• Missing data
• Bayesian nonparametrics

David W. Hogg
Professor of Physics & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Astronomy
• Cosmology
• Probabilistic inference
• MCMC

Panos Ipeirotis
Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Crowdsourcing
• Machine learning
• Integrating human and machine intelligence
• Text and web mining
• Data management

Julia Kempe
Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, & Data Science; Director of the Center for Data Science
Research Areas:

• Mathematics of data science
• Machine learning
• Connections to quantum computation
• Data Science applied to problems in physics and material science

Brenden Lake
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Computational cognitive modeling
• Machine learning
• Structured probabilistic models
• Deep learning

Yann LeCun
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Silver Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, & Data Science; Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science
Research Areas:

• Machine learning
• Computer vision
• Mobile robotics
• Computational neuroscience

Brian McFee
Assistant Professor of Music Technology & Data Science

Research Areas:

• Machine learning
• Music information retrieval
• Recommender systems
• Multimedia signal processing

 

Foster Provost
Professor Information Systems & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Data science
• Data mining
• Machine learning
• Predictive modeling
• Integrating human and machine computation
• Inference in network data
• Social network analysis
• Crowdsourcing
• Micro-outsourcing systems

Rajesh Ranganath
Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Probabilistic modeling
• Approximate inference
• Bayesian nonparametric statistics
• Machine learning for healthcare and causal inference

Cristina Savin
Assistant Professor of Neural Science & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Computational neuroscience
• Machine learning
• Time series models
• Bayesian nonparametrics

Claudio Silva
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Data science
• Urban computing
• Sports analytics
• Visualization and graphics
• Geometry processing

Eero Simoncelli
Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Psychology, & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Probabilistic analysis/representation in biological and machine vision
• Statistical signal and image processing

Arthur Spirling
Associate Professor of Politics & Data Science; Director of Graduate Studies- M.S. in Data Science Program, Deputy Director of Center for Data Science
Research Areas:

• Quantitative analysis of political behavior
• Institutional development and the use of text-as-data
• Political methodology
• Data science

Julia Stoyanovich
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, & Data Science
Research Areas:

• Computer science
• Data and knowledge management
• Ethical data management and analysis
• Management and analysis of evolving graphs
• Management and analysis of preference data