Selma Wanna
Graduate Student Researcher
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSelma Wanna is a robotics and natural language researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience building embedded drivers, ROS-based robotic platforms, and interactive language interfaces to make complex robots accessible to nontechnical users. Currently a Graduate Student Researcher at UT Austin and contributor to the open-source TeMoto2 framework, she combines low-level firmware work (Arduino, TI Launchpads, USB/microcontroller debugging) with machine-learned semantic frame parsing and logical form representations. Her background includes industry research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she designed an automated docking system and streamlined multi-repo deployments, and undergraduate leadership in IEEE RAS that led to competition experience and long-term lab contributions. Known for bridging hardware-software gaps, she pursues a practical vision of conversational robot control inspired by early Star Wars fandom and is actively open to collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, French
Github Skills (56)
pocketsphinx8
meta7
multimodal7
robot7
binding7
foundation-models7
rule6
robotics6
ros5
backend5
coco5
image-segmentation5
alfred5
benchmarking5
semantic-segmentation5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SouLeo/T5LM_Playground
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
SouLeo/ROS2_AllenNLP_Parser
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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