Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis

Associate Professor,
George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow

Biographical Sketch

Panos Ipeirotis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences at Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. His recent research interests focus on crowdsourcing and on mining user-generated content on the Internet. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2004, with distinction. He has received three "Best Paper" awards (IEEE ICDE 2005, ACM SIGMOD 2006, WWW 2011), two "Best Paper Runner Up" awards (JCDL 2002, ACM KDD 2008), and is also a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

News

• For the latest news, check my blog.

Research

• Research Interests: Crowdsourcing, Text and Web Mining
• CV
• Google Scholar profile
• Publications
• Current Research Projects:
  • EconoMining: Economic-aware analysis of user-generated content
  • Crowdsourcing, Mechanical Turk, and Human computation
• Past Projects:
  • QProber
  • Data Cleaning
  • SDARTS
  • SQoUT

Software and Data Sets

• Intrade Archive (code)
• Quality Management on Mechanical Turk (code)
• Citation Tracker (code, API)
• Mechanical Turk Monitor (code)
• Data Cleaning
• Hidden-Web Classification
• SDARTS (code)

Students

• Nikolay Archak
• Beibei Li (co-advised by Anindya Ghose)
• Jing Wang
• Marios Kokkodis

I also served as a secondary advisor for Wisam Dakka (now at Google) and Alpa Jain (now at Yahoo!), while they were PhD students at Columbia University, working with my advisor, Luis Gravano.

Teaching

• Fall 2011: INFO-UB.0001
  • Section 4: Tue & Thu, 9.30-10:45am
  • Section 5: Tue & Thu, 11.00am-12.15pm
  • Section 6: Tue & Thu, 2.00pm-3.30pm

Recent Professional Activities

• PC co-chair (with Kevin Leyton-Brown), ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM EC'12)
• PC co-chair (with Luis von Ahn), Human Computation workshop 2011 (with AAAI 2011)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)
• Program Committee Member: KDD 2011, IJCAI 2011, WWW 2011, SIGIR 2011, WebDB 2011, CSDM 2011, CIKM 2011 (senior program committee), PODS 2012 (external review committee), WWW 2012

Corporate Advisory and Consulting Roles

• AdSafe Media
• oDesk
• ProPublica
• SkillSlate
• Tagasauris

Media Mentions

• Mining Consumer Reviews and Impact on Product Sales: Knowledge@Wharton, Financial Times
• Strata Jumpstart 2011: Big Data, Stupid Decisions (video, slides)
• MIT Technology Review: How Negative Reviews Increase Sales Online
• New York Magazine: Bubble Boys
• Using humans and machines together: Tagasauris and American Graffiti: Wired, MIT Technology Review
• Mechanical Turk Spam-o-Meter: The Economist, New Scientist
• Online reviews, grammar, and sales: Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Reuters, Slate, Today.com, Forbes, Freakonomics, Boing Boing, Business Insider, Geek.com, Techdirt
• Using Mechanical Turk to game social media: The New York Times (the task in question was discovered through MTurk-Tracker), ABC News
• Crowdsourcing and standardization: New Scientist
• Spam and Mechanical Turk: Washington Post, Slashdot, Boing Boing, Forbes, Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, FastCompany, HackerNews, Techmeme, WSJ Allthings Digital, Punto Informatico, Bright.nl, Webplanet.ru, The Digital Bus
• Reputation, Market for Lemons, and Mechanical Turk: MIT Technology Review, TechEye
• On crowdsourcing: TIME Magazine, Fast Thinking
• Journalism and Mechanical Turk: ProPublica I, Propublica II, Poynter
• The ethics of Amazon's Mechanical Turk: Chronicle of Higher Education, BusinessWeek

Miscellaneous

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Resources for Greek students applying for a PhD in the US/Canada

Serres, my home town

Java Applets

My academic genealogy