🎓 Congrats to our newest CDS undergraduate alumni! ✨
Clinical Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Louis Mittel addressed the class, sending the graduates off into the field. 🥂
Congrats to CDS honorees at the 2026 Courant Student Prizes & Fellowships Celebration!
Pathbreaker: Geri Bakushi, Rafael Mateus Carrion.
MS Academic: Harshit Bhargava, Zijin Hu, Hanzhe Wu, Trueman Wu.
UG Academic: Dingyu Fu, Jack Tinker, Selena Zhang, Sifan ‘Silvia’ Zheng.
The CDS Graduate Student Community Building Group hosted UNDP Chief of Investigations Luis F. Socorro and Team Lead Mohamed A. Marrakchi at CDS.
They discussed large language models in fraud detection.
Second-year MSDS students also demoed their capstone project.
The first CDS #research feature of the summer has dropped 📮 Ying Wang improves #AI system physical movement planning, Nicholas Tomlin and Greg Durrett teach AI agents to trade off cost and certainty, and more on this month’s feature.
#datascience
t.e2ma.net/webview/xo6s...
CDS Assistant Professor Mengye Ren (@mengyer.bsky.social) argues in a new paper that AI selfhood requires continual learning. Today’s LLMs wake from amnesia each session and read a diary of a past self — never extending themselves through new experience. nyudatascience.medium.com/to-have-a-se...
CDS Faculty Fellow @sucholutsky.bsky.social co-authored a new paper arguing that teams of language models should be studied like distributed computer systems, with similar coordination and scaling challenges.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.12229
Can a grammar book replace training data for AI translation?
NYU Linguistics PhD student Jackson Petty (@jacksonpetty.org), CDS Assoc. Prof. Tal Linzen (@tallinzen.bsky.social), and CDS MS student Jaulie Goe tested this with synthetic languages.
nyudatascience.medium.com/can-ai-learn...
Co-authors on “Language Model Teams as Distributed Systems” include Elizabeth Mieczkowski (@emiecz.bsky.social, first author), Natalia Vélez (@natvelali.bsky.social), and Thomas L. Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social) of Princeton, and Katherine M. Collins of Princeton, MIT and Cambridge.
🎓✨ Hats off to our newest PhDs!
CDS hosted an in-person graduation lunch reception for students graduating in May and August 2026, joined by faculty guests for an afternoon of food, toasts, and well-earned recognition. 🥂
Congrats to all our grads!