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Professor (Research) of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus

Michael Saunders

Professor (Research) of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus
Saunders develops mathematical methods for solving large-scale constrained optimization problems and large systems of equations. He also implements such methods as general-purpose software to allow their use in many areas of engineering, science, and business. He is co-developer of the large-scale optimizers MINOS, SNOPT, SQOPT, PDCO, the dense QP and NLP solvers LSSOL, QPOPT, NPSOL, and the linear equation solvers SYMMLQ, MINRES, MINRES-QLP, LSQR, LSMR, LSLQ, LNLQ, LSRN, LUSOL.

Education

B.Sc. (Hons), Canterbury, Mathematics (1965)
MS, Stanford University, Computer Science (1970)
PhD, Stanford University, Computer Science (1972)