Shelley is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Computing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her team is operating a supercomputer, a research data storage service, a secure research enclave, a condo cluster, infrastructure support for courses, and a friction free network for large data transfers. She is also one of two executive directors of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS), and chairs the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) which collaborates throughout the Rocky Mountain Region on cyberinfrastructure projects.
Shelley is the lead PI for the NSF funded ACCESS Support project, and serves as PI on several other NSF funded projects as well. Additionally, she leads the User Experience Working Group for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot project, is a member of the RMACC Women in High Performance Computing Chapter, and holds a faculty appointment at CU.
She earned her PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2014.