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 is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center. His research interests include the use of Machine Learning for Detection of Solar Active Region Emergence and SEP Prediction. His hobbies and interests include sailing, surfing, soccer and international politics.