Erik Katsavounidis is a senior research scientist at MIT. He received his PhD from Caltech in 1995 in high energy physics. Following his degree at Caltech he took a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Italy and later a research scientist position with high energy physics at Caltech. He moved to MIT in 2001 where he set up the gravitational-wave data analysis group and more recently the machine learning for gravitational wave effort; he has been at MIT since then.