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Panos Ipeirotis
American computer scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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.
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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]
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