| Shelly Harvey | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Rice University |
| Alma Mater: | Rice University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Tim Cochran |
Shelly Lynn Harvey is a professor of Mathematics at Rice University. Her research interests include knot theory, low-dimensional topology, and group theory.[1]
Harvey grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and graduated California Polytechnic State University in 1997.[1] [2] She received her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2002 under the supervision of Tim Cochran.[1] [2] After postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she returned to Rice University in 2005 as the first female tenure-track mathematician there.[1] [2]
Harvey was a Sloan Fellow in 2006. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[3]