Simon Lucas is a full professor of AI in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, where he leads the Game AI Research Group. His previous roles include the Head of School of EECS at QMUL, and research scientist and software engineer at Meta. He was the founding EiC of the IEEE Transactions on Games and co-founded the IEEE Conference on Games. His research focus is simulation-based AI combined with LLMs, applied to games and real-world problems.