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NYU Courant

@NYU_Courant

Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science at @NYUniversity. cims.nyu.edu

Joined August 2022

NYU Courant
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Oct 3, 2025
Enjoying this 1993 footage of Professor Yann LeCun (@ylecun) and his colleagues' early work on text recognition 📽️🍿
MIT CSAIL
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Jan 7, 2021
A demo from 1993 of 32-year-old Yann LeCun showing off the world's first convolutional network for text recognition. #tbt #ML #neuralnetworks #CNNs #MachineLearning
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NYU Courant
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Mar 11, 2025
Hong Wang delivered her lecture “Kakeya Sets in R^3” to a packed crowd at yesterday’s Mathematics Colloquium!
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NYU Courant
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Mar 6, 2025
Hong Wang, Associate Professor of Mathematics, appears to have solved the infamous Kakeya set conjecture. First introduced by Sōichi Kakeya in 1917, it poses the question of the smallest possible area required to rotate an infinitely thin needle in every possible direction.
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NYU Courant
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Nov 13, 2025
NYU (@nyuniversity) announced the creation of the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science today, signaling the university’s enthusiastic commitment to mathematics, computing, and data science over the coming decades: nyu.edu/about/news-pub…
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NYU Courant
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Oct 18, 2023
Oded Regev, Silver Professor of Computer Science, has proposed a new quantum algorithm that may outperform Peter Shor's infamous 1994 algorithm for factoring large numbers by utilizing multiple dimensions!
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NYU Courant
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Sep 14, 2023
The Breakthrough Prizes—aka the 'Oscars of Science'—were announced earlier this morning. Professor Roland Bauerschmidt was awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for 2024. Congratulations!
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NYU Courant
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Sep 28, 2022
Professor Yann LeCun (@ylecun) spoke at Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Colloquium yesterday. His entire presentation can be viewed on YouTube, check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=VRzvpV…
NYU Courant
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Apr 18, 2024
Anasse Bari (@BariAnasse), Clinical Professor of Computer Science, has won the 2024 NYU Teach/Tech Award which recognizes "a faculty member who has developed innovative technological solutions to enhance student learning." Congratulations! Read more here: cims.nyu.edu/dynamic/news/1…
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NYU Courant
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Feb 7, 2024
Professor Yann LeCun (@ylecun) was profiled by @TIME earlier today on the importance of open-source AI systems. Read it here: time.com/6691705/time10…
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Nov 6, 2025
Professor Yann LeCun (@ylecun) received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (@QEPrize) from King Charles III at a ceremony in London yesterday. Congratulations to Professor LeCun and his fellow honorees! Read more: qeprize.org/news/king-pres… Photo: QEPrize/Jason Alden
The Royal Family
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Nov 5, 2025
Today, The King presented The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at St James's Palace, celebrating the innovations which are transforming our world. 🧠 This year’s prize honours seven pioneers whose work has shaped modern artificial intelligence. 🔗 Find out more:
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NYU Courant
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Sep 7, 2023
The Courant Institute is excited to welcome eleven new faculty members this semester! The impressive group represents a wide range of backgrounds and interests—one new professor is trained as a medical doctor, another as a lawyer, a third studied violin performance at Juilliard.
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Jan 25, 2024
Jinyoung Park, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, has won the 2024 Dénes König Prize alongside Stanford's Huy Tuan Pham. The award is distributed every two years by the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics to early-career researchers. Congratulations!
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Jan 22, 2024
Sylvia Serfaty, Silver Professor of Mathematics, has received the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics. Awarded biennially by the National Academy of Sciences, the prize recognizes exceptional contributions to the mathematical sciences by a mid-career mathematician.
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Jan 30, 2025
He He (@hhexiy), Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the @NSF to develop her project "Enhancing Diversity and Personalization in Human-AI Collaborative Writing."
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