News & Events

Yann LeCun spoke to the UN Security Council about the future of Artificial Intelligence at the invitation of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. (Yann's speech is at this link.)

He He is co-author of the paper "The PRISM Alignment Dataset" which has been awarded the best paper prize in the Datasets and Benchmarks track at NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations!

The top NYU team, comprised of juniors Zhiqian Chen, Kaiyue Guo, and Puming Liu, won the silver medal at the 2024-25 ICPC Greater New York Regional Contest by solving an impressive 11 out of 13 problems. This performance secures them a spot in the North America Championship (NAC) next year. Congratulations to the team, to the coach Yang Tang, and to Xiaoteng Liu, who has been leading their practices!

Research of Anasse Bari and his students is featured in a podcast on National Public Radio, "Can a World Cup Drive Interest in a Nation?". Also, Anasse was interviewed on CNN about their work in using web searches for campaign merchandise as a measure of the popularity of the two presidential candidates.

Yann LeCun has been awarded the 2024 VinFuture Grand Prize. Congratulations!

Yann LeCun is honored as a "Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation. Congratulations!

Ted Rappaport has been inducted into the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society's Hall of Fame. Congratulations!

Work by Julia Kempe with colleagues at the Center for Data Science and at FAIR, Meta on how AI systems deteriorate when trained on their own previous output is featured in an article in the New York Times.

Prof. Emeritus Ralph Grishman has received the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024. Congratulations!

Lerrel Pinto has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project, "Synesthetic Teaching of Dexterous Robots through Multi-Sensory Fusion of Vision, Touch, and Vibration." Congratulations!

The 2024 Samuel Marateck Prize for Outstanding
Teaching in Computer Science is awarded to Prof. Joshua Clayton.
Congratulations!

The AISTATS "Test of Time Award" has been awarded to Rajesh Ranganath for his 2014 paper, with Sean Gerrish and David Blei, "Black Box Variational Inference." Congratulations!

At ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations), Kyunghyun Cho with colleagues at NYU and Genentech has received an Outstanding Paper Award for their paper "Protein Discovery with Discrete Walk-Jump Sampling"; and Joan Bruna and Rob Fergus, with colleagues, have received a Test of Time Award for their 2014 paper "Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks". Congratulations to all!

Zachary Ferguson has received the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis, “Provably Robust and Accurate Methods for Rigid and Deformable Simulation with Contact”. Congratulations to Zachary and to his advisor, Daniele Panozzo.

Oded Regev has received the 2024 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics. Congratulations!

Joseph Tassarotti has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations!

Joseph Tassarotti and Saining Xie have been awarded Amazon Research Awards. Congratulations!

At the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest
(ICPC), the NYU-RTFP team -- Peiliang Liu, Andy Polizzotto, and Sparsh
Sanchorawala -- placed in the top 50. Congratulations to the team and the
curent and former coaches, Yang Tang and Joanna Kluskowska!

Anasse Bari has been chosen to receive NYU's Teach/Tech Award for his innovative use of technology in classroom teaching. 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!

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!

Anirudh Sivaraman has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations!

Matt Zeidenberg has been selected as a recipient of this year's Arts and Science Teaching Innovation Award. 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!

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!

Doctoral student Trieu Trinh's project AlphaGeometry, an AI capable of solving most of the geometry problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, has been published in Nature and is featured in a story in the New York Times. Dr. Trinh's advisor was He He.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has awarded Yann LeCun the degree of Doctor of Engineering honoris causa. Congratulations!

The "NYU-Leaky" programming team, consisting of Siyong Liu (sophomore), Shidong Zhang (first-year M.S. student), and Zihan Zheng (sophomore) won the silver medal at the 2023-24 ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Greater New York Regional Contest. They will advance to the North American Championship, which will be held in Orlando next year. Congratulations to the team, to their coach Yang Tang, and to Peiliang Liu, who has been leading their practices.

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.

The creation of the Jacob T. Schwartz Chair represents New York University’s commitment to computer science, its scholarship and teaching. Jacob T. Schwartz co-founded the university’s Computer Science Department alongside Martin Davis, Max Goldstein and others; he served as the department's first chairman from 1969 to 1977. Schwartz was an early and influential leader in the field—acting as director of DARPA's Information Science and Technology Office and chairman of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems.

Yann LeCun, Silver Professor of Computer Science, upholds this legacy of innovation and service. LeCun is considered a godfather of deep learning, and his research on artificial neural networks created the bedrock of current AI technologies. In 2018, LeCun was honored with the Turing Award for his pioneering work alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the French Académie des Sciences. LeCun has served on the Courant Institute's faculty since 2003. He is also VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta.

The Jacob T. Schwartz Chair was made possible by the generous support of an anonymous donor. We are excited to see the positive impact it will have on our academic community.

Lerrel Pinto has been awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering for his work in robotics. Congratulations!

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".

A new quantum algorithm for factoring large numbers invented by Oded Regev is featured in an article in Science.

Lerrel Pinto has been named one of Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35". Congratulations! 
 

Anasse Bari has been awarded an NYU Professional International Solidarity Award for 2023, in recognition of "outstanding leadership in the New York University community." Congratulations!
 

Kyunghyun Cho is featured in Business Insider's list of "30 Leaders
Under 40 Changing Healthcare in 2023".

Pyrorank, an algorithm for promoting diversity in recommender engine results, developed by Anasse Bari with former students Nicholas Greenquist and Doruk Kilitcioglu, has been featured in the Jerusalem Post and in Le Desk.

The Best Paper prize at OSDI (Operating Systems Design and Implementation) 2023 has been awarded to the paper "Ensō: A Streaming Interface for NIC-Application Communication" by Aurojit Panda, with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft, and Intel. Congratulations!

The paper, "Teaching a Robot to FISH: Versatile Imitation from One Minute of Demonstrations" by Siddhant Haldar, Jyothish Pari, Anant Rai, and Lerrel Pinto won Best Student Paper Award at the Robotics Science and Systems conference. Siddhant is a second-year doctoral student; Jyo completed his B.A. in May, majoring in CS and Math; Anant completed his MS in Computer Science in May. Congratulations to all!
 

The University of Siena has awarded a doctorate honoris causa to Yann LeCun. Congratulatons!

Oded Regev's paper, "New lattice-based cryptographic constructions", which won the Best Paper award at STOC-2003, has now been awarded the 20-year Test of Time award at STOC-2023. Congratulations!
 

At the North American Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC),  the NYU-RTFP team-Peiliang Liu, Andy Polizzotto, and Sparsh Sanchorawala -- was the top team from the greater New York area. They will be advancing to the World Finals, to be held at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, this November. Congratulations to the team, and the current and former coaches, Yang Tang and Joanna Klukowska!
 

Anasse Bari was the Distinguished Faculty Speaker at the 2023 NYU College of Arts and Science Commencement. (His speech is here, starting at 57:00).

Subhash Khot has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 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 AIStat conference. Neil is an MD/PhD student at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Adriel is a PhD student in the Computer Science Department.

NYU's Golden Dozen Award for outstanding contributions to teaching in the classroom has been awarded to Craig Kapp. Congratulations!

Amos Bloomberg has beeen awarded a Teaching Innovation Award. Congratulations!