Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (born 1976 in Serres, Greece) is a professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at

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. He is known for his work on crowdsourcing (especially Amazon Mechanical Turk) and on integrating human and machine intelligence. He also worked on the intersection of data mining with economics, through the EconoMining project. The finding that good spelling and grammar can lead to improved product sales was discussed in the media. 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.

Career

In 2004, Panos Ipeirotis was awarded a

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from

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. In the same year, he joined

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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

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) as Academic-in-Residence, and at

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as a visiting scientist.

Awards

Ipeirotis is the recipient of the 2015 Lagrange Prize in Complex systems for his contributions in the field of

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, and Crowdsourcing. Additionally, he has received nine "Best Paper" awards and nominations and a CAREER award from the

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.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
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References

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