The Center for Data Science is proud to showcase the achievements of our exceptional students through various fellowships and awards. These prestigious recognitions, granted by both CDS and external organizations, highlight our students’ outstanding contributions to the field of data science. Fellowships provide financial support and unique opportunities for students to pursue advanced research and studies. They range from industry-sponsored programs like the DeepMind and Microsoft Research fellowships to academic honors such as the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
List of Awards & Recipients
Adeptmind Fellowship
- Phu Mon Htut (2017)
Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship
- Falaah Arif Khan (2024)
- Lavender Jiang (2024)
DeepMind Fellowship
- Sanae Lotfi (2020)
- Boyang Yu (2020)
- Lily Zhang (2020)
- Aishwarya Kamath (2019)
- Polina Kirichenko (2019)
- Chris Ick (2018)
- Angela Lai (2018)
- Irina Espejo Morales (2018)
Google PhD Fellowship
- Nan Wu (2020)
Meta Fellowship
- Angelica Chen (2024)
- Guy Davidson (2024)
- Polina Kirichenko (2022 & 2023)
- Sanae Lotfi (2022)
- Aram-Alexandre Pooladian (2022 & 2023)
- Vlad Sobal (2022 & 2023)
- Jingtong Su (2023 & 2024)
- Nikolaos Tsilivis (2024)
- Lily Zhang (2024)
- Jianyu Zhang (2023 & 2024)
- Yanli Zhou (2022 & 2023)
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
- Lucius Bynum (2023)
- Sanae Lotfi (2023)
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Samuel Stanton (2018)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Claudia Skok-Gibbs (2023)
- Michael Hu (2022)
- William Merrill (2022)
- Wesley Maddox (2017)
NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Yiqiu (Artie) Shen (2024)
NYU Urban Doctoral Fellowship
- Chris Ick (2020)
OpenAI’s Superalignment Fast Grant
- Jacob Pfau (2024)
Two Sigma PhD Fellowship
- William Merrill (2024)