Sonya is a media researcher at Chartbeat where she analyzes user behaviors and business models and offers insights to a variety of publishers inside and outside the US. Prior to Chartbeat, she was a 2014 Harvard Berkman Fellow, a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and a 2012 Google Policy Fellow.
Sonya obtained her PhD from Michigan State University with concentration on media economics, a field that answers the question how to make money using media content. Before moving to the US, Sonya studied computer science at Tsinghua University in Beijing and journalism at the University of Hong Kong.