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Introducing Minds, Brains, & Machines
NYU Minds, Brains, and Machines is a new campus initiative to focus research and educational opportunities around these topics. The project was initiated by FAS Dean Antonio Merlo via a FAS-wide conference about the relationship between human and machine intelligence. Current priorities includes a hiring cluster which connects several academics units at NYU including Psychology, the Center for Data Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Flatiron Institute.
The current directors of the initiative are CDS faculty Brenden Lake and Todd Gureckis.
Featured Research Projects
Yeah, yeah, data science is a science and an art: But what does that really mean and why does it matter? | CDS Guest Editorial by Andrea Jones-Rooy
This entry is a part of the NYU Center for Data Science blog’s recurring guest editorial series. Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D., is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and a Visiting Associate Professor at CDS. They are a data scientist and standup comedian.
Vasant Dhar and Daniel Kahneman on Noise: The Undesirable Variability within Decision Making
Vasant Dhar, Professor of Information Systems at Stern and CDS associated faculty, invited Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and co-author of Noise: A Flaw Within Human Judgement, to his podcast, A Brave New World. They sat down in a studio in New York to discuss why noise arises in human judgment and how we can address it.
CDS Faculty Fellow Elena Sizikova’s CURP Team and Colleagues Create an Automatic TB Analysis Algorithm
Taking a look specifically at tuberculosis (TB), CURP (CDS Undergraduate Research Program) scholars Ashia Lewis (The University of Alabama) and Evanjelin Mahmoodi (UCSC), CDS MS student Yuyue Zhou, CDS Faculty Fellow Elena Sizikova, and Professor Megan Coffee (NYU Langone) demonstrated the benefits of relying on synthetically generated CT scans in their recent paper “Improving Tuberculosis (TB) Prediction using Synthetically Generated Computed Tomography (CT) Images”.
CDS Research Groups
CDS research groups include the following:
- CILVR Lab
- MaD & MaD+
- Minds and Machines
- ML2
CDS Research Groups
Faculty Research Areas
To learn more about our what each of our faculty cover, please see the link below.
Faculty Achievements
CDS faculty has received awards such as the Turing Award, the Silver Professorship, the Google Faculty Award, and more.