Sophia Zaccarine is a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering with an emphasis in Bioastronautics, advised by Dr. David Klaus. Her research with NASA’s Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration (HOME) institute is focusing on the integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence with human space habitats with an emphasis on operability considerations. She is pursuing a dual MS at CU Boulder in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Management, and received her undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in May 2019. During her undergraduate career she completed two internships and one co-op with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She was employed as a Visiting Scientist at NASA Goddard the summer before beginning at CU Boulder. Her work encompassed mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering design and applied physics for the VISIONS Sounding Rockets (PI Douglas Rowland). She published a paper in the IEEE Journal as first author in the fall of 2018, and joined the launch team in the northernmost year-round civilian settlement in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard to launch the VISIONS-2 rockets in December 2018, which housed the CubeSat hardware she designed during her time at Goddard. In her free time, she enjoys playing music (flute, piano, guitar, and singing), painting, cooking, playing soccer and hiking.