Professor Mary Lynn Reed elected to Institute for Defense Analyses Board of Trustees

Mary Lynn Reed, head of RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences, was elected a member of the Institute for Defense Analyses Board of Trustees. IDA is a nonprofit corporation that operates three federally funded research and development centers in the public interest. IDA answers the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise.

“I am deeply honored by the trust being placed in me with this election to the IDA Board of Trustees,” said Reed. “I know firsthand how extraordinarily talented the IDA workforce is, and the critical contributions IDA makes to the national security mission.”

Reed will complete a three-year term as head of the School of Mathematical Sciences in June and is an affiliated faculty member with RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute. Before arriving at RIT, Reed served as the chief of mathematics research at the National Security Agency. In her role, Reed managed the Mathematics Research Group, oversaw the NSA Mathematics Hiring Program, and served as the government technical lead overseeing research at the IDA Center for Communications and Computing, including the Centers for Communications Research in Princeton, N.J., and La Jolla, Calif., and the Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Md. Reed has also served as a research staff member at IDA CCR-La Jolla.

“I am pleased to welcome Mary Lynn to our Board of Trustees,” said IDA President Norty Schwartz. “Her expertise and long-standing support to IDA will prove to be invaluable as we advance IDA’s mission in the national security and science policy communities.”