Background
Saunders was born on (1944-1901-06)6 January 1944 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Saunders was born on (1944-1901-06)6 January 1944 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Stanford University.
He is a Research Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Saunders is known for his contributions to numerical linear algebra and numerical optimization and has developed many widely used software packages, such as MINOS, NPSOL, and SNOPT.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Canterbury in 1965 and worked for two years as a scientific officer at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) in New Zealand. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1972, under the supervision of Gene Golub.
Saunders spent another two years at his old position with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research before joining the Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) in the Operations Research department at Stanford University.
He was promoted to his current position in 1987 and made a faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics (SCCM). Saunders is a highly cited researcher in both computer science and mathematics on the Inter-Services Intelligence Web of Knowledge, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) fellowship