Yann LeCun of the Courant Institute To Direct Facebook’s New Artificial Intelligence Lab

Yann LeCun, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Silver Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of NYU’s Center for Data Science, was recently named director of Facebook’s laboratory devoted to artificial intelligence and machine learning research. This new laboratory will support AI research teams in New York City, London and Facebook’s … Continue reading Yann LeCun of the Courant Institute To Direct Facebook’s New Artificial Intelligence Lab

Courant’s Raghu Varadhan To Become Interim Director of Center For Data Science

Srinivasa (Raghu) Varadhan was recently appointed Interim Director of NYU’s Center for Data Science, succeeding inaugural Director Yann LeCun. Arriving at the Courant Institute in 1963 from Calcutta, India, Raghu is unquestionably considered one of the Institute’s most accomplished faculty members, twice serving as Director, from 1980-84 and 1992-94. Gérard Ben Arous, Director of the … Continue reading Courant’s Raghu Varadhan To Become Interim Director of Center For Data Science

Data Science Professor Profiles: David Hogg, Physics and Astronomy

This is the fourth article in a series profiling NYU Center for Data Science professors, exploring the origins of their interest in data science and their thoughts on the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment Initiative. David W. Hogg, NYU Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Physics, Director of Undergraduate Studies—Physics, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, … Continue reading Data Science Professor Profiles: David Hogg, Physics and Astronomy

Data Science Professor Profiles: Kyle Cranmer, Physics

This is the first article in a series profiling NYU Center for Data Science professors, exploring the origins of their interest in data science and their thoughts on the Moore-Sloan Initiative.   Kyle Cranmer, NYU Associate Professor of Physics and Affiliated Faculty member at the Center for Data Science, is an experimental particle physicist working on the Large Hadron … Continue reading Data Science Professor Profiles: Kyle Cranmer, Physics

Foster Provost: Professor, Business Advisor, Musician, and Now Acclaimed Author

Foster Provost is a Professor of Information Systems, NEC Faculty Fellow and Paduano Fellow in Business Ethics (Emeritus) in the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he has taught graduate-level data science courses for 15 years. He is also an Associate Faculty Member at the NYU … Continue reading Foster Provost: Professor, Business Advisor, Musician, and Now Acclaimed Author

Jing Ping, Inaugural Recipient of the Glen de Vries Permanent Fellowship Fund for the Center for Data Science

Jing Ping, a first-year graduate student at the Center for Data Science, is the first recipient of the Glen de Vries Permanent Fellowship Fund. The newly-established fellowship provides tuition assistance to one student each year in the CDS master’s program at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Originally from China, Jing Ping initially studied at … Continue reading Jing Ping, Inaugural Recipient of the Glen de Vries Permanent Fellowship Fund for the Center for Data Science

By Studying Polar Ice Sheets, David Holland Seeks to Predict Rising Sea Levels

David Holland, Courant Institute Mathematics Professor and past Director of Courant’s Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), recently returned from two months spent installing ice measurement instrumentation, observing melting ice flows and collecting data from the frozen fjords of Greenland and Antarctica in hopes that scientists, today and in generations to come, will be able … Continue reading By Studying Polar Ice Sheets, David Holland Seeks to Predict Rising Sea Levels