Panos 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

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

Students

• Nikolay Archak (graduated 01/2012; first employment: Quantitative Research Analyst/Trader at Two Sigma Investments)
• 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

• I am on sabbatical until September 2013

Recent Professional Activities

• PC co-chair (with Kevin Leyton-Brown), ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM EC'12)
• Organizer, 4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 2012, with AAAI 2012)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)
• Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing
• Guest Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, Special Issue on Social Media and Business Transformation
• PC co-chair (with Luis von Ahn), 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 2011, with AAAI 2011)
• 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

Miscellaneous

• Corporate Advisory and Consulting Roles
• Media Mentions
• My academic genealogy
• Resources for Greek students applying for a PhD in the US/Canada
• Java Applets (circa 1996)
• Serres, my home town
• Trying to get a certificate that I live abroad from the Greek Consulate; or, abandon any hope for logic thou who crosses the gates of the Greek Consulate (in Greek)