Simos Evangelou did the Electrical and Information Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge and obtained a BA/M.Eng degree in 1999. He then worked on the project 'The control and stability analysis of two-wheeled road vehicles' and received a Ph.D. in Control Engineering from Imperial College London in 2004. He worked as a Research Associate in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College until the end of 2005.

In January 2006 he was appointed to a joint lectureship between the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, London.