Sean McGregor

Sean McGregor is a machine learning safety researcher whose efforts have included launching the AI Incident Database and training edge neural network models for the neural accelerator startup Syntiant. With an applications-centered research program spanning reinforcement learning for wildfire suppression and deep learning for heliophysics, Sean has covered a wide range of safety critical domains. Sean's open source development work has earned media attention in the Atlantic, Der Spiegel, Wired, Venture Beat, Vice, and Time while his technical publications have appeared in a variety of machine learning, HCI, ethics, and application-centered proceedings. Sean holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Oregon State University and is currently the Executive Director for the Responsible AI Collaborative (i.e., the AI Incident Database), co-founder and lead research engineer for averi.org, and lead of the agentic product benchmarking workstream with MLCommons.