Spyros Kasapis was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. He moved to the US when he was 17 and completed his Aerospace Engineering Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he focused on controls and autonomous aircraft path planning. He moved to Ann Arbor for his second Master’s degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and his PhD which was focused on Machine Learning applications in visual recognition. He has worked as an intern at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he helped characterizing the Van Allen radiation belt using the SDO satellite data while also being a member of the NASA JPL 2022 Planetary Science Summer School cohort where he worked on the Gelatto asteroid sample return mission proposal. He spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Space Physics Group, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, at Princeton University. He is involved with the Frontiers Development Lab as a Faculty member and with the SDO HelioFM (Heliophysics Foundation Model) efforts led by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. His research interests include the use of Machine Learning for a variety of heliophysics applications such as Detection of Solar Active Region Emergence and SEP Prediction.