[1] Grundman is noted for her research in number theory and efforts to increase diversity in mathematics.
Helen Grundman earned her PhD in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of P. Emery Thomas.
[2] After receiving her PhD, Grundman spent two years as a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2016, Grundman was named as the inaugural Director of Education and Diversity for the American Mathematical Society.
[3] In 1994, Grundman proved that sequences of more than 2n consecutive Harshad numbers in base n do not exist.