Panos Ipeirotis

Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	University of Patras (BSc) Columbia University (MSc, PhD)
Known for	Crowdsourcing, Data Quality, Text Mining, Human-AI
Awards	2020 SIGKDD Test of Time Award [1] 2015 Lagrange Prize [2] Management Science, ISS/INFORMS Best Paper Award (2011-2014) 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) Best Paper Award National Science Foundation CAREER Award ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2006) Best Paper Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	New York University Stern School of Business

Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (born May 3, 1976 in Serres, Greece) is a professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. ^{[3] [4]}

He is known for his work on crowdsourcing (especially Amazon Mechanical Turk) ^{[5] [6] [7]} and on integrating human and machine intelligence. ^[8]

He also worked on the intersection of data mining with economics, through the EconoMining project. ^[9] The finding that good spelling and grammar can lead to improved product sales was discussed in the media. ^{[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]}

He is the author of the blog "A Computer Scientist in a Business School", where he often writes about crowdsourcing and other topics. Many of his blog posts are frequently cited in the press and in academic papers. ^[15]

Career

In 2004, Panos Ipeirotis was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. In the same year, he joined New York University Stern School of Business where he is currently a professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences. He also worked for oDesk (now UpWork) as Academic-in-Residence, and at Google as a visiting scientist.

Awards

Ipeirotis is the recipient of the 2015 Lagrange Prize in Complex systems for his contributions in the field of Social media, User-generated content, and Crowdsourcing. ^[16] Additionally, he has received nine "Best Paper" awards and nominations and a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. ^{[17] [18] [19]}

References

1. "2020 SIGKDD Awards". 2020 SIGKDD Awards.
2. "Press release Lagrange Prize 2015" (PDF). ISI Foundation.
3. Personal home page of Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
4. NYU Stern page for Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
5. Washington Post: How you and Google are losing the battle against spam in search results
6. MIT Technology Review: How Mechanical Turk is Broken
7. Business Insider: 40% Of Amazon's Mechanical Turk Is Spam
8. Awards for 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
9. Ghose, Anindya; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis (2009). "The EconoMining project at NYU: Studying the economic value of user-generated content on the internet". Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. 8 (2–3): 241–246. doi:10.1057/rpm.2008.56. S2CID   154923072.
10. Forbes: Zapos, Zappoz, or Zappos: Why Typos Are Good For Your Brand
11. An ingenious application of crowdsourcing: Fix reviews' grammar, improve sales
12. Harvard Business Review: The Value of Teaching Your Customers How to Spell
13. Slate: Awsum Shoes. Is it ethical to fix grammatical and spelling errors in Internet reviews
14. Freakonomics: Does Reviewer Quality Matter?
15. "The Data Dude: NYU Stern's Panos Ipeirotis". Bloomberg. 24 January 2013.
16. "The 2015 CRT Foundation - Lagrange Prize awarded to Panos Ipeirotis and Jure Leskovec". ISI.
17. Reuters: How to ethically improve your customer reviews
18. A Computer Scientist in a Business School
19. Best Paper Award for the 20th International World Wide Web Conference: Towards a Theory Model for Product Search by Beibei Li, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis