NYU Center for Data Science Admissions Podcast: Recent Episodes
NYU Center for Data Science
The NYU Center for Data Science (CDS) admission podcast is a weekly conversation with current CDS MS and PhD Students designed to give prospective students insight into the life of CDS students. Topics discussed include the admissions process, transitioning to life in CDS, what the CDS culture is like, how they adjusted to life in NYC, research opportunities, etc.
This episode features and interview with Meghana Kakubal who is a Data Science Major and the President of the Data Science Club (DSC). We discuss the history of the DSC, their plans for the upcoming academic year, the DSC blog and ways for students to get involved. I have provided relevant links below:
DSC Slack channel for general inquiries: tinyurl.com/dscnyuslack
Committee Application: tinyurl.com/dscrecruitment23
DSC blog: https://medium.com/nyu-ds-review
In our first episode of the 2023-2024 academic year, we will speak with the fall 2023 instructors for our undergraduate courses. This episode features interviews with the following instructors:
Louis Mittel - Data Science for Everyone
Pascal Wallisch - Principles of Data Science
Bryant Moy - Causal Inference
Parijat Dube - Advanced Topics for Data Science
We talk with Lauren D’arinzo and Amber Teng, Co-Presidents of Women in Data Science, about the Summer 2020 Incubator Project in supporting students who were seeking meaningful summer experiences despite the sudden cancellation of many internships, and their experience in founding the first student group at CDS. This episode was recorded in June 2020.
Stephen is a second year student with the CDS MS Program. We talk with Stephen about his transition from working in the military to studying at CDS. This episode was recorded in June 2020.
Khasi is a second year student with the CDS MS Program. We talk with Khasi about his experience in research, finding housing, and life in CDS and NYC. This episode was recorded in June 2020.
Sid is a second year student with the CDS MS Program. We talk with Sid about his experience in moving to NYC, grad housing, and internship searching. This episode was recorded in June 2020.
Meet is a third year PhD student and we talk with Meet about his experience in admissions, his research, life in NYC, and much more. This episode was recorded in June 2020.
Aishwarya is a first year PhD student. We spoke with Aishwarya about admissions, life at CDS, living in NYC and much more. This episode was recorded in June 2020.
Nan is a third year PhD student, Google PhD Fellow and former CDS MS student. We talk with Nan about his experience in both the MS and PhD programs, life in NYC, finding housing, CDS culture, and her research.
Armanda Lewis is a third-year, part-time student with the CDS MS Program. We spoke with Armanda about admissions, balancing work, school, and life commitments as a part-time student, life at CDS, living in NYC and much more.
In this episode we talk with current MS and PhD students about finding housing in New York City.
In this episode we talk with current MS and PhD students about the transition from undergrad or industry to CDS.
In this episode we talk with current MS and PhD students and find out why they decided to choose to pursue their studies at the Center for Data Science.
In this special bonus podcast Tim has compiled application advice from four MS students (Shreyas Chandrakaladharan, Amber Teng, Eric He and Aja Klevs) and four PhD students (Chris Ick, Irina Espejo, William Falcon and Katrina Evtimova).
Chris is a first year PhD student and former CDS MS student. We talk with Chris about his experience in both the MS and PhD programs, life in NYC, finding housing, CDS culture and his research.
Amber Teng is a first year student with the CDS MS Program and the author of the book "The Data Resource: How Emerging Countries Can Thrive in a Changing Landscape". We spoke with Yash about admissions, life at CDS, living in NYC and much more.
You can find The "Data Resource: How Emerging Countries Can Thrive in a Changing Landscape" at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Resource-Emerging-Countries-Landscape/dp/1641372524
Katrina is an alum of the CDS MS program and a current PhD student. We talk with Katrina about her experience in both the MS and PhD program, life in NYC and at CDS, we discuss her research as well as an exciting internship opportunity that she had.
Yash Deshpande is a second year student with the CDS MS Program and he is the president of the Leadership Circle. We spoke with Yash about admissions, life at CDS, living in NYC and much more.