Sonja Michaluk

 Sonja Michaluk is a Data Science Engineer in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER) and the Institute for Sustainability and Circular Economy (ISCE) at Texas Tech University (TTU). 

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Sonja earned her B.S. with Honors in Statistics and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. She was a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate classes in Statistics, as well as AI and IoT. She was a Statistics Mentor and graduated with a Senior Leadership Recognition Award for her community contributions. She wrote grants and received funding. As an undergraduate, Sonja earned multiple major academic merit and technology leadership scholarships and contributed to research in Green Chemistry, Catalysis, and Lunar Robotics. She interned at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (formerly Janssen Pharmaceuticals), and the Furst Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has over 10 years’ experience in Chemistry and Biology research and received the 2019 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), and a 2021 Environmental Law Institute National Wetlands Award. Sonja was inducted as an Associate Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. 

•  B.S., Statistics and Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, (2025) 

•  Electrochemical sensors 

• Chemical catalysis for pollutant degradation in water 

• Developing freshwater bioassessment methods with DNA barcoding 

• Modeling lunar terrain for standardized small scale rover testing 

•  Baking 

• Hiking 

• Arts and Crafts 

• Sailing, swimming, and SCUBA diving