Mary Lynn Reed

Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967)[1] is an American mathematician, intelligence researcher, and short fiction writer. She is Department Head in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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 soon began working with the National Security Agency. In approximately 2000, she left the agency and moved to San Diego to work in the software industry, but returned to work with the 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 agency mathematicians.[7]

In 2019, she moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology as Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences.[8]

Recognition

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

gollark: But... seriously, why are you making your own weird packet format?
gollark: It's probably just converting each byte of the buffer to separate... words... in the Uint16Array.
gollark: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
gollark: Extremely fast and tunable compression.
gollark: Zstandard's very cool.

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. Maggelakis, Sophia (April 2019), RIT College of Science Month in Review (PDF), retrieved 2019-09-02
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