Tess Hellebrekers is a Research Scientist at Meta AI working on tactile sensing for robotics. Her robotics career path started during her undergrad at UT Austin, during a summer internship. She went on to participate in two REU programs at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon before finding her research focus on sensing and pursuing her PhD at Carnegie Mellon. Her research aims to bring robots a sense of touch and help them learn how to adapt to real-world environments.