Koen Holtman
Co-Lead / Co-Founder / Resident Standards Expert
PhD in software design. Worked 20 years in industrial R&D, 10 years in standards creation. AI safety researcher since 2019, published on agent foundations and corrigibility. Full time in AI governance since 2023. Lives in The Netherlands.
Ze Shen Chin
Co-Lead
Research affiliate at Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. Specialises in frontier AI policy, safety engineering, and risk management. Former reservoir engineer with 10+ years in the oil and gas industry. Lives in between Europe and Asia.
Ayrton San Joaquin
Senior Researcher
BSc (Hons) in Data Science with a minor in Philosophy from Yale-NUS College. Former NLP researcher at project DesCartes, CNRS@CREATE. Research interests in adversarial machine learning, data privacy, evaluations, and governance. Lives in Spain.
Marcel Mir Teijeiro
Senior Policy Researcher
Qualified lawyer with an LLM in Information Technology Law from the University of Edinburgh. Former AI policy fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe in Brussels. Lives in Brussels.
Rokas Gipiškis
Senior Researcher
PhD in Computer Science from Vilnius University. Specialises in explainable AI and model interpretability, AI evaluation, frontier AI policy, and risk management. Lives in Lithuania.
Yi-Yang Chua
Operations Specialist
Former Programme Associate at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Background in operations, programme coordination, and community research. BSc from Indiana University Bloomington. Lives in Malaysia.
Board members
The board consists of the lab co-leads, Koen Holtman and Ze Shen Chin, and the following two members:
Ariel Gil
Co-Founder / Board President
Mechatronics engineering background. Early engineer at an ophthalmic surgical robotics startup that raised $150m+, gaining experience in risk & quality management and complex semi-autonomous robotic systems. Currently a Technical Research Manager at Pivotal, with research interests in AI control and scalable oversight.
Jonathan Happel
Co-Founder / Board Member
CEO at TamperSec. Specialises in hardware-enabled compute governance. Former mechanical engineer with 10 years of risk management experience in medical devices. Mentor at ERA, Pivotal, and SPAR (2025-2026).
Past Contributors
- Adrian Regenfuß
- Anastasiia Gaidashenko
- Christopher Denq
- Jonathan Claybrough
Note: Not all past contributors are listed above. Past contributors can choose not to have their names or full names disclosed in public.