Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967)[1] is an American mathematician, intelligence researcher, professor, and short fiction writer.

[4] In 2013, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.

[6] 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 left to work at the IDA Center for Communications Research (CCR) in La Jolla and then in the software industry.

[5] She has also been president of the Crypto-Mathematics Institute, an association of NSA mathematicians,[7] and a member of the Board of Trustees of IDA.

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