Shelly Harvey

Shelly Harvey
Shelly Harvey at Brochstein Pavilion, Rice University, in 2016
Nationality	United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	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.

Harvey grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and graduated California Polytechnic State University in 1997. She received her Ph.D. from Rice University in 2002 under the supervision of Tim Cochran. 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.

Harvey was a Sloan Fellow in 2006. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.