Selenne Bañuelos (born January 29, 1985)[1] is an American mathematician and associate professor of mathematics at California State University Channel Islands.

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

Her dissertation Structured two-stage population model with migration between multiple locations in a periodic environment was supervised by Robert John Sacker.

[4][2] During her doctoral studies at USC, she was presented with the Department of Mathematics Denis Ray Estes Graduate Teaching Prize.

[5] Bañuelos joined the faculty at California State University Channel Islands in 2014 as an assistant professor of mathematics.