Mary Lynn Reed

Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967)[1] is an American mathematician, intelligence researcher, professor, and short fiction writer. She served as the Department Head in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from 2019 to 2022. She is currently a professor of Mathematics at RIT.

Mary Lynn Reed
Mary Lynn Reed in 2023
Born1967 (age 55–56)
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNational Security Agency, Institute for Defense Analyses, Rochester Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorWilliam Haboush

Education

Reed is a 1988 graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.[2] She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Her dissertation, supervised by William Haboush, was The Frobenius Direct Image of Line Bundles and the Structure of Representations, and concerned representation theory.[3]

Reed writes that she was "drawn to writing in one form or another since I was a child", but that she began submitting her creative writing for publication in approximately 2005.[4] In 2013, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.[5] Her MFA thesis, Singularities, was directed by Maud Casey.[6]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Reed obtained a faculty position at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, but "it was not her dream job", and she left to work at the IDA Center for Communications Research (CCR) in La Jolla and then in the software industry. She began working with the National Security Agency after the September 11 attacks in 2001. By 2016, she had become the chief of mathematics research at the agency.[5] She has also been president of the Crypto-Mathematics Institute, an association of NSA mathematicians,[7] and a member of the Board of Trustees of IDA.[8]

In 2019, she moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology as Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences.[9]

Recognition

In 2018, the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics Alumni gave Reed their Outstanding Professional Achievement Award.[5][7]

References
  1. Birth year from WorldCat identities, retrieved 2019-09-02
  2. Reed, Mary Lynn (1995), The Frobenius Direct Image of Line Bundles and the Structure of Representations, PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, ProQuest 304191333
  3. Mary Lynn Reed at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "An Interview with Orson's Review Contributor Mary Lynn Reed", Orson's Review, March 20, 2018
  5. Peterson, Doug (October 8, 2018), Code breaking and counterterrorism: Mary Lynn Reed leads mathematicians at the National Security Agency, University of Illinois, retrieved 2019-09-02
  6. Reed, Mary Lynn (2013), Singularities (PDF), MFA Thesis, University of Maryland
  7. 2018 Recipient of the Mathematics Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement, University of Illinois, retrieved 2019-09-02
  8. Auburn, Luke (2022-04-01), Professor Mary Lynn Reed elected to Institute for Defense Analyses Board of Trustees, Rochester Institute of Technology, retrieved 2023-01-08
  9. Maggelakis, Sophia (April 2019), RIT College of Science Month in Review (PDF), retrieved 2019-09-02
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