Biography

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 area of expertise is databases and information retrieval, with an emphasis on management of textual data. His research interests include web searching, text and web mining, data cleaning and data integration. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2004 and a B.Sc. degree from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) of the University of Patras, Greece in 1999. He is the recipient of two Microsoft Live Labs Awards, the "Best Paper" award for the IEEE ICDE 2005 conference, the "Best Paper" award for the ACM SIGMOD 2006 conference, and a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Research Interests

• Text and Web Mining
• Text Databases
• Data Cleaning and Data Integration
• Economic-Aware Text and Web Mining

Courses Taught

• Information Systems Technical Research Seminar
• Information Technology in Business and Society
• Search and the New Economy

Academic Background

PhD, Computer Science, 2004
Columbia University

MSc, Computer Science, 2001
Columbia University

BSc, Computer Engineering & Informatics, 1999
University of Patras, Greece

Awards & Appointments

	Google Research Award	2010
	New York University Research Challenge Grant	2010
	NYU/Poly Seed Grant	2010
	Marketing Science Institute Grant	2009
ACM International Conference on Knowledge Management and Data Mining	Best Paper Runner Up	2008
	NSF CAREER Award, IIS-0643846 $499,957	2007
	Microsoft Virtual Earth Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift, $35,000	2007
	NET Institute Summer Grant	2007
ACM International Conference on Management of Data	Best Paper Award	2006
	Microsoft Live Labs Search Award, Unrestricted Cash Gift, $37,000	2006

Selected Publications

G. Paolacci, J. Chandler, P. Ipeirotis (2010)
Running Experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 5, No. 5, August 2010

B. Li, A. Ghose, and P. Ipeirotis, (2010)
Towards a Theory Model for Product Search
Proceedings on the 20th International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), 2010

A. Ghose and P. Ipeirotis (2010)
Estimating the Helpfulness and Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2010

V. Hristidis, Y. Hu, and P. Ipeirotis (2010)
Relevance-based Retrieval on Hidden-Web Text Databases without Ranking Support
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2010

W. Dakka, L. Gravano, and P. Ipeirotis (2010)
Answering General Time Sensitive Queries
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2010

A. Jain and P. Ipeirotis (2009)
A Quality-Aware Optimizer for Information Extraction
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), March 2009

P. Ipeirotis and L. Gravano (2008)
Classification-Aware Hidden-Web Text Database Selection
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol. 26, no. 2, article 6, March 2008

P. Ipeirotis, E. Agichtein, P. Jain, and L. Gravano (2007)
Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 32, no. 4, article 21, November 2007

P. Ipeirotis, A. Ntoulas, J. Cho, and L. Gravano (2007)
Modeling and Managing Changes in Text Databases
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 32, no. 3, article 14, August 2007

A. Elmagarmid, P. Ipeirotis, and V. Verykios (2007)
Duplicate Record Detection: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 19, no. 1, January 2007