News & Announcements
At the prestigious NeurIPS 2024 conference, Hannah Rose Kirk and Professor He He received the Best Paper Award in the Datasets & Benchmarks track for their remarkable work on the PRISM Alignment Dataset. This dataset provides critical insights into the subjective and multicultural alignment of LLMs. With data from 75 countries and diverse demographics, their work benchmarks over 20 cutting-edge models and addresses challenges in Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).
Professor Yann LeCun is honored as a "Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation, Congratulations!
Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and contributions. Professor Yann LeCun of NYU has been chosen in the class of 2024.
Researchers at NYU including Timothy Merino tested GPT-4's ability to create puzzles like The New York Times' "Connections." They found that while LLMs struggle with anticipating human reasoning, breaking down tasks into subtasks allowed GPT-4 to generate puzzles comparable in quality to human-made ones, with players rating many AI-generated puzzles as equally challenging and creative.
Reported by Korean Herald: South Korea's science and technology university KAIST and New York University signed an agreement in Seoul to introduce a joint degree program in artificial intelligence on Monday.
Reported by NeuroScience News: Prof. Yvonne W. Lui, Associate Professor of Radiology, NYU Langone, published a study that shows that an AI algorithm designed for analyzing MRI images can detect sex-related differences in brain structure.
Reported by InfoDocket: Julian Togelius, NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Director of the Game Innovation Lab with researchers at NYU Tandon test AI systems' ability to solve the New York Times' connections puzzle.
Zahra Kadkhodaie (CDS PhD), with others, won one of the Outstanding paper awards at International Conference on Learning Representations 2024. Congratulations!
Professors Rob Fergus & Joan Bruna's (of Computer Science and Data Science) 2014 paper on "Intriguing properties of neural networks", runner up for the inaugral test-of-time award at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) '24.
Nathan Frey, Dan Berenberg, Kyunghyun Cho, Rich Bonnau and others received the outstanding paper award at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024. Congratulations!
Prof. Kyunghyun Cho of Computer Science and Data Science is an invited speaker at ICLR 2024.
Reported by MarkTechPost- A Machine Learning Paper from ICMC-USP, NYU, and Capital-One Introduces T-Explainer: A Novel AI Framework for Consistent and Reliable Machine Learning Model Explanations
Prof. Rajesh Ranganath of Computer Science and Data sciene wins the the test-of-time award at AISTATS 2024! Congratulations!
CBS News reports: NYU Langone Health and Meta have developed a new type of MRI that dramatically reduces the time needed to complete scans through artificial intelligence.
Lerrel Pinto has been awarded a 2024 IEEE Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation. Congratulations!
The paper "An AI Framework For Predicting The Winner Of The Grammys" by MS students Rushabh Musthyala, Abhishek Narayanan, Anirudh Nistala, and Prof. Anasse Bari has won a Best Presentation Award at the IEEE Conference on Big Data and Analytics. Congratulations!
Thomas Wies and Lakshmi Subramanian, together with Varun Chandrasekaran of UIUC, are recipients of an Amazon Research Award for their project on Automating Privacy Compliance. Congratulations!
Yann LeCun has been awarded a Time Magazine Time100 Impact Award for his advocacy of open source AI. The award "recognizes leaders from across the world who are driving change in their communities and industries." Congratulations!
Jonathan Niles-Weed, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, has won the 2024 SIAG/DATA Early Career Prize. Congratulations!
Juan Pablo Bello is elected as an IEEE fellow. Congratulations!
Trieu Trinh's project AlphaGeometry has been published in Nature and is featured in a story in the New York Times.
Yann LeCun has been named an ACM Fellow for 2023, "for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing." Congratulations!
This prestigious honor comes from the University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning, highlighting her as a beacon of innovation and brilliance in the field.
Saadia Gabriel is leading the charge in a crucial mission to ensure that AI technologies are equitable and safe, and for her work in this area, Gabriel was recently named to Forbes’ prestigious 30 Under 30 list.
Yiming Li, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Tandon’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, had garnered one of only 10 scholarships awarded this year.
The NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is excited to announce the launch of our Third Pathways to AI Program for Summer 2024!
We are thrilled to announce that Qi Lei, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at CDS, has recently been named a co-Principal Investigator of ROME, a project that received a significant grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has awarded Yann LeCun the degree of Doctor of Engineering honoris causa. Congratulations!
NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers awarded $1 million from National Science Foundation for pioneering work on automated building envelope assessments
Lerrel Pinto has been awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering for his work in robotics. Congratulations!
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Science is proud to announce the creation of the Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professorship in Computer Science. Yann LeCun, an esteemed scholar and leader of the AI revolution, has been appointed as the inaugural Chair.
Congratulations to Prof. Guido Gerig for receiving the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award which recognizes enduring impact on the field of medical image computing and computer-assisted interventions.
Congratulations to Prof. Yann LeCun for being named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI
On September 19, Yann LeCun testified at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on artificial intelligence, arguing in favor of "the rapid and free exchange of ideas, scientific publications, open source code, and trained models".
Congratulations to Prof. Juliana Freire and Prof. Cláudio T. Silva on receiving the IEEE VIS Test of Time Award for their groundbreaking paper on urban data visualization
Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Korean Minister of Science Dr. Jong-Ho Lee, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, NYC Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Turing Prize Winner Yann LeCun Convene at NYU for Kick-Off
KyungHyun Cho, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, has been named one of the "30 Leaders Under 40 Changing Healthcare in 2023" by Business Insider.
NYU Courant Computer Science Students and Faculty Siddhant Haldar, Jyothish Pari, Anant Rai, and Prof. Lerrel Pinto (NYU-Courant Computer Science and Center for Data Science) won the Best Student Paper award at the Robotics, Science, and Systems Conference. July 2023.
Prof. Anasse Bari's work on improving recommender system capabilities based on mimicking behavior in natural systems was featured in the July 11, 2023 Jerusalem Post.
Julia Stoyanovich, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and the Center for Data Science, was quoted in the New York Times May 25th, 2023. She commented on NYC's recent law requiring companies using A.I. software in hiring to notify candidates that an automated system is being used.
Linan Huang (Tandon School of Engineering) received outstanding dissertation award for his dissertation titled "AI-Powered System-Scientific Defense for High-Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Design". Congratulations!
The paper "Don’t be fooled: label leakage in explanation methods and the importance of their quantitative evaluation" by Neil Jethani, Adriel Saporta, and Rajesh Ranganath has been named a "Notable paper" at the 2023 AIStats conference.
Prof. Moira Dillon's work on "Common sense psychology in human infants and machines" is featured in the The Daily Beast, Futurity, The Jerusalem Post, and Science Daily.
Prof. Laure Zanna's work on learning physics equation from data with machine learning is featured in the Quanta magazine. Link to original article.
Prof. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt's paper examining the security of GitHub Copilot's generated code received a Distinguished Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Bayesian-Nash-Incentive-Compatible Mechanism for Blockchain Transaction Fee Allocation won the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS Workshop on Decentralization and Trustworthy Machine Learning in Web3. Congratulations to Prof. Xi Chen
Julia Kempe, Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Data Science has been announced as a new Silver Professor.
Prof. Chen Feng (NYU Tandon) wins NSF CAREER Award for boosting the perception and navigation capabilities of construction-site robots.
Rajesh Ranganath, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, has received the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations to Jonathan Niles-Weed for receiving the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Tweedie New Researcher Award
Congratulations to Nur Muhammad (Mahi) Shafiullah for receiving Apple Scholars in AI ML PhD fellowship.
Dennis Shasha has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. Congratulations!
Prof. Denis Zorin (Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Chair, Computer Science Department) has been named an ACM Fellow "for contributions to computer graphics, geometry processing, and scientific computing". Congratulations!
Congratulations to Prof. Kyunghyun Cho (Courant CS / CDS) for being selected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.
The NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is excited to announce the launch of our second Pathways to AI Program for Summer 2023!
Congratulations to CDS PhD students Sanae Lotfi and Lucius Bynum for recently receiving the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship!
Alexander Rives' work on using AI technology to predict protein structure is featured in the journal Nature. The ESMFold system predicted more than 600 million structures of previously uncharacterized proteins. Alexander is a doctoral student in our department, working with Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.
Giuseppe Loianno — an assistant professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, received a 2022 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, more widely known as a CAREER Award, which supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
Giuseppe Loianno, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, is investigating novel ways of making robots work as teams to achieve goals, without the need for a remote AI or human “overseer.”
Sanae Lotfi (CDS), Pavel Izmailov (CS - Courant), Gregory Benton (CS-Courant), Dr. Micah Goldblum (Postoc, CS-Courant) and Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (CS-Courant and CDS) received an outstanding paper award at ICML 2022 for their paper "Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization"
Lerrel Pinto of Courant's Computer Science Department was awarded an Amazon Research Award for his proposal "Visual Imitation in the Wild through Decoupled Representation Learning".
Yann LeCun has been awarded Spain's Princess of Asturias Award along with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis.
Sam Bowman of the Departments of Linguistics, Data Science, and Courant-Computer Science was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, effective this fall.
Ulyana Piterbarg has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Ulyana is a first-year student working with Rob Fergus and Lerrel Pinto. Congratulations!
The Université Côte d'Azur will award an honorary doctorate to Yann LeCun. Congratulations!
Andrew Wilson has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, "New Frontiers in Bayesian Deep Learning". Congratulations!
Congratulations to CDS faculty Jonathan Niles-Weed! Jonathan was recently awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which honors “extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.”
Aahlad Puli has been named an Apple Scholar in AI/ML. Aahlad is a doctoral student advised by Rajesh Ranganath. Congratulations!
A team of NYU faculty and students received a $5 million contract to develop Transparent, Interpretable, and Multimodal Personal Assistant (TIM), an artificial intelligence technology that can provide immediate audio and visual feedback. Find more here.
CDS PhD student Aram-Alexandre Pooladian and CDS Assistant Professor Jonathan Niles-Weed recently won the Best Paper Award at the Virtual OTML Workshop at NeurIPS 2021 (OTML stands for Optimal Transport and Machine Learning). The OTML Workshop series has been pivotal in developing optimal transport research in recent years. Please read the full article here.
Yann LeCun has been named a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Yann LeCun listed as Analytics Insight's 'Top-10-Machine Learning Influencers To Look Out For In 2022'.
The NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is excited to announce the launch of our Pathways to AI Program for Summer 2022! You can find more details here.
How can we truly understand intelligence? It’s a challenge that requires a multidisciplinary approach, one with a particular focus on computation. Minds, Brains & Machines (MBM), a new NYU initiative, seeks to do its part in answering this question by asking two more -
Led by CDS affiliated faculty Rumi Chunara, NYU has partnered with Brown University in Rhode Island and Moi University in Kenya to spearhead a data science training program called the NYU-Moi Data Science for Social Determinants Training Program (DSSD). The program is one of 19 initiatives that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting in an effort to advance data science, catalyze innovation, and spur health discoveries across Africa.
Kyle Cranmer (Executive Director of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment at NYU and Professor of Physics and Data Science) was elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). In addition to his work in high-energy physics, Prof. Cranmer has been very active in developing a wide variety of machine-learning models for the physical sciences.
Professor Julia Stoyanovich (Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon and CDS, and Director of NYU’s Center for Responsible AI) was quoted by the AP News about a new NYC bill on the reining in of the use of AI-based hiring tools in NYC.
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 regularly holds what we call company information sessions to give our current students the opportunity to meet with premier companies seeking to hire data scientists and other related roles. Last month, we held a company information session with Revelio Labs virtually via Zoom. Find more on this article here
CDS Professor Carlos Fernandez-Granda recently earned the Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant — New to the Field (AARG-NTF). The award seeks to provide researchers with the appropriate funding to establish a research path in Alzheimer’s and all other dementias. Find more information here
Associate Professor Semiha Ergan of Tandon’s BILab and Professor Chen Feng of the AI4CE Lab point out,America is currently facing a leaky building epidemic.They recently convened a group of graduate students to devise a solution: EASEEbot.Their solution for reducing leak and moisture related energy costs in buildings sits squarely at the intersection of robotics,3D models and sustainability.
Chinmay Hegde, professor of computer science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is part of a multi-institutional collaboration to pursue foundational advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the resiliency of the nation’s agricultural ecosystem. Please find more information here.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death globally.To address the need to build more comprehensive CVD risk prediction models, we performed a systematic review of research on machine learning and CVD risk that includes social determinants of health, and found that including them improved the ability to predict cardiovascular outcomes like rehospitalization, heart failure, and stroke.
We are always excited to spread the word about the accomplishments of our students, researchers and faculty. Today, we get the opportunity to celebrate He He, CDS Faculty and Assistant Professor of Computer and Data Science, as the recipient of a Google Research Collabs Award!
Please find more information here
MSML21 (Mathematical and Scientific Machine Learning, Aug. 16-19) is a new conference aiming to strengthen ties between Machine Learning and the Computational Sciences. It is co-chaired by Prof. Joan Bruna (Courant - Computer Science).The conference is fully virtual, free and open. More information can be found here.
CDS Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Data Science, and Computer Science Sam Bowman recently earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award.Please find more information here.
Zhong-Ping Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of Tandon’s Control and Network (CAN) Lab, has been elected to Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), an organization dedicated to excellence in scholarship in several branches of human endeavor, including mathematics, medicine, and all areas of natural and technological sciences for the public benefit.
We are so happy to share in the celebration of one such accomplishment by PhD student Angelica Chen who was recently named an honorable mention in this year’s cohort of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients.
Researchers at the NYU Center for Cyber Security at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are rethinking basic functions that drive the ability of neural networks to make inferences on encrypted data. Their focus is on linear and non-linear operators, key features of neural network frameworks that, depending on the operation, introduce a heavy toll in time and computational resources.
Kyle Cranmer, CDS Professor of Data Science and Professor of Physics at the NYU College of Arts & Science, recently co-authored “Reframing Jet Physics with New Computational Methods”. The project was presented last month at the 25th International Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (vCHEP) by Kyle’s co-author and colleague Sebastian Macaluso, a postdoctoral associate in the NYU Physics Department.
The paper, “an artificial intelligence system for predicting the deterioration of COVID-19 patients in the emergency department”, was recently published in npj Digital Medicine. It has also been featured in online science news outlets EurekAlert! and SciTechDaily.
Professors Siddharth Garg and Elza Erkip have been awarded NSF award from the NSF NSF/Intel Partnership on Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS). The project title is “MLWiNS: Resource Constrained Mobile Data Analytics Assisted by the Wireless Edge”. Funding period is July 2020 – Aug. 2023
Congratulations to Juan Pablo Bello, Director of CUSP, who has received the 2020 IEEE SPS Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award for his research on “Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Environmental Sound Classification.”
CDS PhD student Artie (Yiqiu) Shen, alongside Assistant Professor and Emerging Scholar of Computer Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi Farah Shamont and NYU School of Medicine student Jamie Oliver, has co-authored the “Artificial Intelligence System Reduces False-Positive Findings in the Interpretation of Breast Ultrasound Exams”.
Tandon’s robotics researchers in NYU Tandon’s departments of electrical and computer engineering, mechanical and aerospace engineering and civil and urban engineering, have sixteen accepted papers and several workshops at the conference, which brings together experts to discuss the most cutting-edge research in robotics and autonomous systems.
Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to 80 percent accuracy which patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) would develop life-threatening complications within 4 days, a new study finds.
Maurizio Porfiri, an NYU Tandon Institute Professor with appointments in the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Urban Engineering, is the recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Research Award.
Congratulations , Prof. Yann LeCun for being elected as a Member of National Academy of Sciences!
The Office of the Provost is launching NYU’s All-University Climate Change Initiative to face climate crises head-on by fostering a broad range of University activities.
Professor Kyunghyun Cho (Computer Science - Courant and Center for Data Science) is one of five recipients of the Inaugural Samsung AI Researcher of the Year Award.
A four-part series jointly organized by the Center for Responsible AI and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York
The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected an NYU Tandon School of Engineering professor who is spearheading a project to democratize big data modeling with novel algorithms to receive one of its most prestigious awards for promising young academics.
Alexis Networks, Inc., is proud to announce a multi-year R&D collaboration with the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, to significantly advance the computational science behind unsupervised anomaly detection.
An international collaboration, led by Laure Zanna, Professor at NYU's Courant Institute and Center of Data Science, will work to enhance climate-change projections by improving climate simulations using Artificial Intelligence, backed by a $10 million grant from Schmidt Futures
Professor Julia Stoyanovich (Tandon, Computer Science and Engineering) co-authored an Op-Ed in the March 17, 2021 New York Times entitled “We Need Laws to Take On Racism and Sexism in Hiring Technology”
Professor Yann LeCun’s work and career was highlighted in New York Times journalist Cade Matz’s most recent book, “Genius Makers”.
NSF Career Awards have been awarded to Professors Anna Choromanska (Electrical Electrical and Computer Engineering-Tandon) and Professor Benjamin Peherstorfer (Computer Science, Courant).
A research by Guanrui Li, Alex Tunchez, and Giuseppe Loianno from Agile Robotics and Perception Lab (ARPL) at NYU , develop an approach for the a Low-Cost drone to have the control over the suspended payload while the drone is moving.
NYU Stern's Fubon Center for Technology, Business, and Innovation, and its Fintech initiative, will host Stern's annual FinTech Conference on Friday, March 5, 2021.
The webinar featured a presentation from CDS assistant professor, Julia Stoyanovich who discussed the necessity for artificial intelligence (AI) to be utilized responsibly.
We are pleased to welcome Professors Lerrel Pinto (Computer Science-Courant, and Data Science), Tal Linzen (Linguistics-FAS, and Data Science), and Sumit Chopra (Computer Science-Courant, and Radiology-Grossman School of Medicine) to NYU.
CDS and Computer Science Sstudents along with Professor Sam Bowman (CDS and Linguistics) organized the Jan. 4-8, 2021 NYU AI School.
Professor Anasse Bari (Computer Science, Courant Institute), and students received two Best Presntation Awards at IEEE Conference on Big Data and Analytics (December 10-13, 2020).
Professor Daniel K. Sodickson of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering (Tandon) and Radiology, and Neuroscience and Physiology (Langone) has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
The work of Professor Yann LeCun was featured in Forbes Magazine in an article entitled “The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence”