Student Profile: Joanna Sroka
Year Expected to Graduate: 2025
Campus: Long Island
Hometown: Deer Park, N.Y.
Language Fluency
It is not surprising that Joanna Sroka is striving for a future in the tech industry, as her father exposed her to the field as a young girl when she would tag along to his workplace. A technician and network engineer, her father would teach Sroka the inner workings of radios, fiber optics, radar systems, and more.
Sroka is now studying for her bachelor鈥檚 degree in聽computer science聽with a concentration in .
鈥淲hen I was growing up, my father brought home tech for me to tinker with; each time, I was amazed at what technology can do,鈥� says the聽College of Engineering and Computing Sciences聽student. 鈥淚 always knew this field would become my future.鈥�
On the Long Island campus, Sroka writes code and programs for devices that will be used in current and future projects in the聽Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center听(贰罢滨颁).
While coding jargon often looks complicated and nonsensical, Sroka breezes through it鈥攑erhaps because she鈥檚 multilingual in Polish, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Korean. She knows a thing or two about fluency in different languages, including coding languages.
Right now, she is writing Python (a coding language) and programming a variety of sensors鈥攕uch as infrared, ultrasonic, gas, and weather鈥攖o activate and make them work. These sensors have potential use in upcoming drone, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology projects the ETIC team is working on.
Citing her experience working in the university鈥檚 tech hub, Sroka says between the collaborative nature of creating projects with teammates and the hands-on coding and programming she carries out, she has substantially built up her repertoire of computer science skills鈥攃ritical for her career in the field.
鈥淲orking in the ETIC has definitely taken me on a journey,鈥� she says. 鈥淚鈥檝e gained so much invaluable experience, and I鈥檝e thrived in working on things that I am passionate about. I鈥檓 excited to have this practice for my future career.鈥�
After graduating, she plans to go back to school for her master鈥檚 degree in data science鈥攊n line with her goal of becoming a data scientist working on machine learning and AI for a major technology corporation. Sroka is keeping her options open, though, as she follows her own words of wisdom to take others鈥� advice as simply a guide, not as a steadfast rule.
鈥淚 have many plans for after I graduate,鈥� Sroka says. 鈥淚 have thoughts of working in government or even joining the military. I also plan to become an entrepreneur of an AI or data science technologies company someday.鈥�
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