Shelley Dougherty, Ph.D.

I graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2019, where I was a grad student in the Mathematics Department under Craig Westerland. I earned my B.S. from St. Lawrence University in 2013, where I double majored in computer science and mathematics. Consequently, my interests often fall in an intersection of the two. As the Assistant Director of the Mathematics Center for Educational Programs (MathCEP), I do not do much research now, although past interests have included Topological Data Analysis and Homotopy Type Theory. My dissertation was on topological complexity and digital topology. At Michigan State University, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Liz Munch and Shiv Karunakaran. In Fall 2021, I started as the Assistant Director of MathCEP at UMN. I've also been known to have teal hair!