The NYU Center for Data Science (CDS) is a degree-granting graduate institute and research center at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. It was established in 2013 by computer scientist

Yann LeCun Yann André LeCun ( , ; originally spelled Le Cun; born 8 July 1960) is a French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professo ...

. CDS offers a M.S. in Data Science and, as of 2017, it was one of the first universities in the U.S. to offer a Ph.D. in Data Science. CDS's director is Julia Kempe.

History and background

In 2011, New York University launched a university-wide initiative in Data Science and Statistics under the leadership of Gerard Ben Arous, who was the director of the

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...

and NYU's Vice Provost for Science and Engineering at the time.

was invited to chair the working group, and they eventually recommended the creation of a multidisciplinary data science center in response to the growing demand for data scientists in academia, industry, and government. CDS was publicly announced in 2013, with

as its founding director. Today, CDS is the focal point for all data science research initiatives at the university. The center is highly interdisciplinary, and collaborates with several departments and schools across the university. CDS offers degrees in data science at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels.

Research

The Center has been engaged in a range of research projects across several fields in the humanities and the sciences. It is also part of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment, a five-year $37.8 million cross-institutional partnership with Berkeley Institute for Data Science and the

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that aims to advance data-intensive scientific discovery. The center also holds multiple speaker series throughout the year, like the Text-as-Data & NLP seminars, Math and Data seminars, and the Moore-Sloan Research Lunch seminars.

Notable faculty

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* Julia Kempe *Arthur Spirling * Richard Bonneau * Vasant Dhar *

Juliana Freire Juliana Freire de Lima e Silva is a Brazilian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science and engineering at the New York University.. She is known for her research in information visualization, data provenance, and computeriz ...

* Panos Ipeirotis *

* Foster Provost * Claudio Silva *

Eero Simoncelli Eero Simoncelli is an American computational neuroscientist and Silver Professor at New York University. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 2000 to 2020. In 2020, he became the inaugural director of the Center for Computa ...

* S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan * Pascal Wallisch

References

External links

Official website
New York University