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New York University is one of the world's leading private global research universities, anchored in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, with degree-granting campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Globally renowned for Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Stern School of Business, Tisch School of the Arts, and NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
NYU spans historic Washington Square Park, Brooklyn's MetroTech Center (Tandon School of Engineering), and the NYU Langone Health medical complex in Midtown East. NYU produces groundbreaking discoveries across artificial intelligence, quantitative finance, quantum optics, and cinematic arts.
Admissions are highly selective with an overall acceptance rate of approximately 8%. Applicants submit either SAT/ACT or international credentials, alongside academic transcripts, personal essays, and recommendation letters. Graduate programs require rigorous discipline-specific credentials.
Elite doctoral training at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences covering machine learning, deep learning theory, computer graphics, cryptography, and natural language processing.
World's top-ranked applied mathematics doctoral program specializing in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, computational mathematics, probability, and mathematical physics.
Pioneering curriculum in statistical inference, optimization, deep representation learning, big data systems, and generative AI led by founding fathers of deep learning.
Interdisciplinary doctoral program investigating synaptic plasticity, cellular neurophysiology, visual processing, cognitive neuroscience, and computational neural modeling.
Legendary graduate film program educating directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, and producers, with state-of-the-art production soundstages in Greenwich Village.
One of the most prestigious postdoctoral mathematics appointments in the world, combining independent mathematical research at Courant with light undergraduate teaching.
Silver Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & Center for Data Science
Turing Award laureate and Chief AI Scientist at Meta; pioneer of convolutional neural networks, self-supervised learning, and modern deep learning architectures...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Co-inventor of the Fast Multipole Method (one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century); member of NAS, NAE, and Director of the Center for Computational Bi...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director of the Institute for Systems Genetics; pioneer of synthetic genomics leading the Synthetic Yeast Genome Project (Sc2.0) and human retrotransposon resea...
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