Selenne Bañuelos (born January 29, 1985) is an American mathematician and associate professor of

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California State University Channel Islands California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI, CSU Channel Islands) is a public university in Ventura County, California. Located near the city of Camarillo, it opened in 2002 as the 23rd campus in the California State University system. ...

. Her research is in the areas of differential and

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and

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, with a focus on their applications to

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Early life, education, and career

Bañuelos was born Selenne Hayde Torres-Garcia to Georgina Torres, Mexican immigrants who raised her in the community of Boyle Heights, east of downtown

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. earned her B.S. degree in mathematics from the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

in 2007. She was awarded a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

(USC) in 2013. Her dissertation ''Structured two-stage population model with migration between multiple locations in a periodic environment'' was supervised by Robert John Sacker. During her doctoral studies at USC, she was presented with the Department of Mathematics Denis Ray Estes Graduate Teaching Prize. She was a co-founder of the USC chapter of

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. Bañuelos was part of the SACNAS Chapter Leadership Institute Alumni for her work at USC. Bañuelos joined the faculty at

in 2014 as an assistant professor of mathematics. She is currently an associate professor of mathematics. She is co-advisor to the SACNAS chapter at Channel Islands, a mentor for Math Alliance, and a mentor and advisor for the CSU Alliance PUMP (Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring towards PhDs) Program. In 2014, Bañuelos was a Linton Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute fellow and in 2015, she was a Project NExT, New Experiences in Teaching, fellow. In 2018, Bañuelos was featured on the Lathisms calendar. In 2020, she received the

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Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is included in deck 2 of EvenQuads which is a series of playing card decks that feature notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.

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