Panos Ipeirotis

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis

| prizes = 2020 SIGKDD Test of Time Award{{Cite web |title=2020 SIGKDD Awards |url=https://kdd.org/awards/view/2020-sigkdd-test-of-time-award-winners |website=2020 SIGKDD Awards |language=en-US}}
2015 Lagrange Prize{{Cite web |title= Press release Lagrange Prize 2015|url=https://www.isi.it/wp_blobs/2015/10/Press-release-Lagrange-Prize-2015.pdf |website=ISI Foundation |language=en-US}}
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

| nationality = Greek

| field = Computer Science

| work_institution = New York University Stern School of Business

| alma_mater = University of Patras (BSc)
Columbia University (MSc, PhD)

| known_for = Crowdsourcing, Data Quality, Text Mining, Human-AI

}}

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.[http://www.ipeirotis.com Personal home page of Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis][http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/facultyaffairs/facultyindex.cgi?id=337 NYU Stern page for Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis]

He is known for his work on crowdsourcing (especially Amazon Mechanical Turk)

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012807515.html Washington Post: How you and Google are losing the battle against spam in search results][http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26193/ MIT Technology Review: How Mechanical Turk is Broken][http://www.businessinsider.com/40-of-amazons-mechanical-turk-is-spam-2010-12 Business Insider: 40% Of Amazon's Mechanical Turk Is Spam] and on integrating human and machine intelligence.[http://www.kdd2008.com/awards.html Awards for 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining]

He also worked on the intersection of data mining with economics, through the EconoMining project.{{cite journal|journal = Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management|title = The EconoMining project at NYU: Studying the economic value of user-generated content on the internet |year = 2009 |doi = 10.1057/rpm.2008.56 |url = http://www.palgrave-journals.com/rpm/journal/v8/n2/abs/rpm200856a.html|last1 = Ghose |first1 = Anindya |last2 = Ipeirotis |first2 = Panagiotis |volume = 8 |issue = 2–3 |pages = 241–246 |s2cid = 154923072 |url-access = subscription }} The finding that good spelling and grammar can lead to improved product sales was discussed in the media.[https://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/06/08/zapos-zappoz-or-zappos-why-typos-are-good-for-your-brand/ Forbes: Zapos, Zappoz, or Zappos: Why Typos Are Good For Your Brand]

[http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/04/want-to-improve-sales-fix-grammar-and.html An ingenious application of crowdsourcing: Fix reviews' grammar, improve sales][http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2011/05/the-value-of-teaching-your-cus.html Harvard Business Review: The Value of Teaching Your Customers How to Spell][http://www.slate.com/id/2293544/ Slate: Awsum Shoes. Is it ethical to fix grammatical and spelling errors in Internet reviews][http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/12/does-reviewer-quality-matter/ Freakonomics: Does Reviewer Quality Matter?]

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.{{cite news|work = Bloomberg |title = The Data Dude: NYU Stern's Panos Ipeirotis |date = 24 January 2013 |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-24/the-data-dude-nyu-stern-s-panos-ipeirotis}}