The Center for Data Science at New York University (NYU) invites applications for postdoctoral researchers as part of the Polymathic AI initiative, focused on generalization and transfer across scientific disciplines , as well as mechanistic interpretability of scientific foundation models .



The rush to build foundation models has led to the development of large machine learning models in Astrophysics, fluid dynamics, biology, weather prediction, solar prediction … At the core of their ability is the capacity to generalize unseen data and to be applied as pretrained models to different domains. However, these properties remain only partially understood, exploring and advancing them, both during training and at test time, is crucial for developing the next generation of pan-scientific models.



The selected postdoctoral candidates will join a vibrant, interdisciplinary team based in New York, spanning NYU and the Flatiron Institute, composed of mach...