Sotirios Sabanis is a Professor of Stochastic Analysis and Algorithms at the University of Edinburgh and holds the personal chair of Statistics and Stochastic Analysis at the National Technical University of Athens. He is the Director of the Centre for Investing Innovation, a strategic partnership between global asset management company abrdn and the University of Edinburgh. The Centre is funded by a £7.5 million commitment from abrdn across a five-year period.

His research focus is on explicit numerical algorithms for nonlinear random systems of (typically) high dimension and their interplay with core data science and AI techniques. Examples of these algorithms are stochastic optimizers for neural networks and generative models, MCMC algorithms and explicit numerical schemes for stochastic (partial) differential equations,. His research portfolio includes funding from the Alan Turing Institute (incl. Fellowship), The Royal Society, EPSRC and Innovate UK. His research has appeared in the Journal of Machine Learning Research, Transactions of Machine Learning Research, Annals of Applied Probability, Bernoulli, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and other leading journals.