Simon is a Chartered Engineer with over a decade of experience leading Systems Engineering teams in product development and system integration.

He is now focused on AI Safety, applying Systems Engineering methodology to the Technical Governance of Artificial Intelligence. He recently completed the 2025 Winter Fellowship at the Centre for the Governance of AI, working on the application of Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to frontier AI. He developed and leads the AI Incident Tracker - a classification tool and dashboard to add structure to datasets of reported AI safety incidents, which is now hosted by the MIT AI Risk Repository and its analysis features on AI Incident Database. He co-authored ‘Assessing confidence in frontier AI safety cases’ exploring probabilistic assessment methods and approaches to addressing argument ‘defeaters’.

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