Chomiuk grew up in
Detroit, and was inspired to study astronomy through seeing the 1997 film
Contact. She became an undergraduate at
Wesleyan University, where she graduated with high honors in astronomy in 2003. She continued her studies at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison. There, she received a master's degree in atmospheric and oceanic sciences in 2006, and completed a Ph.D. in 2010. Her dissertation,
Supernova remnants across the Hubble Sequence, was supervised by Eric Wilcots. After postdoctoral research from 2010 to 2013 as a Jansky Fellow at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Michigan State University, she joined Michigan State University as an assistant professor in 2013. At Michigan State, she has founded multiple programs providing astronomy research opportunities to undergraduates, and hosts outreach events for the public to attend observations. She was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2023. ==Recognition==