Welcome to Xinpeng Wang, joining CDS this fall as an incoming Faculty Fellow.
He works on making language models more trustworthy, understanding how they work and catching failure modes like deception and reward hacking.
NYU Center for Data Science
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Official account of the NYU Center for Data Science (CDS), the home of the Undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. programs in data science.
- Attention companies, nonprofits, and research labs! THIS SUNDAY, AUG 16 is the CDS Capstone Project proposal deadline!
- We each carry 100s of copies of ribosome genes, yet almost no disease is linked to mutations in them. Then-MS students at CDS Xufan Ma, Fiona Chow & Buz Galbraith found why: harmful ones survive only in a few copies, which disease studies filter out. nyudatascience.medium.com/why-the-genome…
- Welcome and congratulations to our two 2026 CDS Pathbreaker Scholarship recipients, Aigerim (Aileen) Adilet and Sherry Scott Bianco. Aileen has built AI for earlier medical diagnosis, while Sherry works on accessible tools for blind and visually impaired people.
- Starting your master’s at CDS this fall? Incoming CDS Professor of Psychology and Data Science Todd Gureckis (@todd_gureckis) suggests browsing the CDS website and faculty lab pages over the summer to find mentors and projects that fit your interests.
