Panos Ipeirotis

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Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
NationalityGreek
Alma mater
Computer Science
InstitutionsNew 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

UpWork) as Academic-in-Residence, and at Google
as a visiting scientist. He is also the greatest father ever.

Awards

Ipeirotis is the recipient of the 2015

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. S2CID 154923072
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  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