marios kokkodis
Contact
140 Commonwealth Ave
Fulton Hall
Room 412C
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Profile
Marios Kokkodis is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Carroll School
of Management, Boston College. He received his PhD in Information Systems from NYU
Stern in May 2015, under the guidance of Panos Ipeirotis. His research focuses on interdisciplinary data-driven problems (online markets, data mining, econometrics). His
teaching includes data-analytics and data mining courses for both undergraduate and
graduate business majors. His research appears in major Information Systems (Management Science, ICIS) and Computer Science (WSDM, WWW) outlets. He has received
multiple awards including the NYU Stern Harold W. MacDowell Award for his dissertation in online labor markets.
Higher
Education
2010-2015. NYU Stern School of Business, USA. PhD in Information Systems.
[email protected]
www.kokkodis.com
+1 951-941-4357
Advisor: Panos Ipeirotis
Committee Members: Arun Sundararajan, Foster Provost
2008-2010. University of California Riverside, USA. M.Sc. in Computer Science.
2002-2007. National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Ptychion in Electrical
and Computer Engineering (5-year program).
Research
Interests
Online markets, machine learning, text mining, data science, big data techniques, crowdsourcing, randomized experiments and econometrics.
Professional 07/2015 - now. Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Carroll School of ManEmployment agement, Boston College.
05/2013-08/2013. Research scientist intern at Microsoft Research. Worked on algorithmically augmenting education textbooks.
06/2012-09/2012. Data scientist intern at oDesk. Worked on oDesk’s contractor-client
matching algorithm.
06/2011-09/2011. Data scientist intern at oDesk. Worked on matching skills towards
a better recommendation system.
Teaching
01/2014
01/2014
01/2013
09/2012
09/2011
01/2011
- 05/2014. Dealing with Data: Instructor. Feedback score: 6.4/7.0
- 05/2014. Networks Crowds and Markets: Teaching Fellow
- 05/2013. Networks Crowds and Markets: Teaching Fellow
- 12/2012. Practical Data Science: Teaching Fellow
- 12/2011. Information Technology in Business and Society: Teaching Fellow
- 05/2011. Datamining for Business Intelligence: Teaching Fellow
Awards
May 2015. NYU Stern Harold W. MacDowell Dissertation Award
Fall 2014. AAAI HCOMP Doctoral Consortium
Fall 2014. INFORMS Data Mining Best Student Paper Award Competition (runnerup).
2014-2015. Lee Sproull Doctoral Fellowship.
2010-2014. New York University Fellowship.
2008-2010. University of California Riverside, Graduate Division fellowship.
2002. 1st place in the Cyprus Biology Olympiad. Represented Cyprus in the International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2002), in Latvia.
2002. 4th place in the Cyprus Physics Olympiad. Represented Cyprus in the International Physics Olympiad (IPHO 2002), in Bali, Indonesia.
Working
Papers
Kokkodis Marios. “The Invisible Barrier: The Effect of Promoting Agencies on Sales
in Electronic Markets”. (under review)
Kokkodis Marios. “The Effect of Disclosing Purchase Information on Review Helpfulness: Evidence from Amazon.com”.
Kokkodis Marios and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “Career Development Paths”. (under
review)
Kokkodis Marios, Papadimitriou Panagiotis and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “On hiring
Decisions in Online Labor Markets”. (under review)
Journal
Kokkodis Marios and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “Reputation Transferability in Online
Publications Labor Markets”. Management Science, 2015.
Conference Kokkodis Marios, Papadimitriou Panagiotis and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “Hiring BePublications havior Models for Online Labor Markets”. Proceedings of the eighth ACM international
(Refereed)
conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM). ACM, 2015.
Kokkodis Marios and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “The Utility of Skills in Online Labor
Markets”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS),
2014
Kokkodis Marios, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi. “Assigning Educational Videos at Appropriate Locations in Textbooks”. Proceedings of the International
Educational Data Mining Society (EDM), 2014.
Kokkodis Marios, Kannan Anitha, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi. “Assigning Videos
to Textbooks at Appropriate Granularity”. Proceedings of the first ACM Learning at
Scale (LAS) conference. ACM, 2014
Kokkodis Marios and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “Have you done anything like that?
Predicting user performance using inter-category reputation”. Proceedings of the sixth
ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM). ACM, 2013.
Kokkodis Marios. “Learning from positive and unlabeled amazon reviews: towards
identifying trustworthy reviewers”. Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web (WWW). ACM, 2012.
Kokkodis Marios, Faloutsos Michalis and Markopoulou Athina.“Network-level characteristics of Spamming: An empirical analysis”, IEEE Network Protocols (ICNP), Vancouver, BC, October 2011.
Kokkodis Marios and Faloutsos Michalis.“Spamming Botnets: Are we losing the
war?”, CEAS, Mountain View, CA, July 2009.
Pelechrinis Konstantinos, Wei Dong and Kokkodis Marios. “Assortativity Patterns in
Refereed
Conferences Multidimensional Attributed Networks: a Statistical Approach”. Workshop on Informawithout
tion in Networks (WIN), 2015
proceedings
Kokkodis Marios. “The Effect of Disclosing Purchase Information on Review Helpfulness: Evidence from Amazon.com”. Conference on Information Systems and Technology
(CIST), 2015.
Kokkodis Marios Papadimitriou Panagiotis, Ipeirtotis, G, Panagiotis. “On Hiring
Decisions in Online Labor Markets”. Workshop on Information Systems Economics
(WISE), 2014.
Kokkodis Marios. “Online Labor Markets: Reputation Transferability, Career Development Paths and Hiring Decisions”. Doctoral Consortium, AAAI Conference on
Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 2014.
Kokkodis Marios, Papadimitriou Panagiotis, Ipeirtotis, G, Panagiotis. “Who Should
I Hire? Maximizing Employer’s Utility in Online Labor Markets”. In 2013 Winter
Conference on Business Intelligence.
Kokkodis Marios. “Credibility dimensions in online reviews”. In 2013 Winter Conference on Business Intelligence.
Kokkodis Marios and Ipeirotis G. Panagiotis. “Where are you coming from, stranger?
Predicting future performance using inter-category reputation” In 2012 Winter Conference on Business Intelligence.
Invited Talks “The Effect of Promoting Agencies on Sales in Electronic Markets”. INFORMS 2015
“Disclosing Purchase Information and Review Helpfulness”. INFORMS 2015
“Maximizing Employer’s Utility in Online Labor Markets”. INFORMS 2013
“Reputation Transferability in Online Labor Markets”. INFORMS 2013
Patents
Kokkodis Marios, Kannan Anitha, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi. “Associating content
items with document sections”. (application filed).
Service
Web Chair: Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2015
Session Chair:, ‘Big Data in Business and Society’, 2014, International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS)
Reviewer: Management Science (INFORMS)
Reviewer: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Reviewer: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Languages
English. Fluent.
Greek. Fluent (native Language).