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, the ...

. 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 Professor ...

. 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 Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute Education and career Kempe was born in East Berlin, to a ...

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 The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is a central hub of research and education within University of California, Berkeley designed to facilitate data-intensive science and earn grants to be disseminated within the sciences. BIDS was init ...

and the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

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 Richard Bonneau is an American computational biologist and data scientist whose primary research is in the following areas: learning networks from functional genomics data, predicting and designing protein and peptiodomimetic structure and applying ...

Vasant Dhar Vasant Dhar is a professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University, former editor-in-chief of the journal ''Big Data'' and the founder of SCT Capital, one of the first machine-learning-based hedge ...

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 Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (born 1976 in Serres, Greece) is a professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. He is known for ...

Foster Provost Foster Provost is an American computer scientist, information systems researcher, and Professor of Data Science and Information Systems and Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is also ...

* 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