Professor Georgios Leontidis

Georgios is the Deputy Director of SUSTAIN and leads the CDT's machine learning stream. He is a professor of machine learning and the interdisciplinary director for data and AI at the University of Aberdeen. In this role, he provides university-wide strategic oversight of this area and participates in the university management group. Georgios has extensive project leadership experience, currently leading or co-leading several projects, such as the BBSRC AI in the Biosciences Network, the EPSRC Enhancing Agrifood Transparent Sustainability Project, and the European Space Agency Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin project.

His research focuses on improving representation learning of deep neural networks by developing novel self-supervised learning approaches and architectural concepts, and also how these techniques can be applied in domains, such as environment, agri-food, and energy transition.

Prof Leontidis is an Action Editor and Area Chair for the flagship Machine Learning venues ICLR, NeurIPS and TMLR, and a member of the Scotland Beyond Net Zero steering group. Georgios co-organised the 2023 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) and is the chair of the 2025 British Machine Vision Association Summer School. He has a particular interest in supporting early career researchers to navigate academia and industry, and also promoting responsible research and innovation principles. Georgios is a regular funding panel member across UKRI and also a panel process advisor for EPSRC.