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Personal profile
Biography
James Saunderson is a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering (ECSE) department at Monash University. From 2016-2020 he was a lecturer in ECSE at Monash, and from 2020-2024 he was a Discovery Early-Career Research Fellow in ECSE at Monash.
James received the Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Science degrees (both with Honours) from the University of Melbourne in 2008. He then completed MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011 and 2015 respectively. Before joining Monash, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral scholar jointly in Electrical Engineering at Caltech and the University of Washington.
Monash teaching commitment
ECE4132 Control System Design: Semester 2, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
ECE2111 Signals and Systems: Semester 2, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025
ECE3062 Electronics and Control (control part): Semester 2, 2016, 2017
ECE3093 Optimisation and Numerical Methods for Engineers: Semester 1, 2024, Semester 2, 2025
Research interests
James' research is focused on mathematical optimisation, especially methods based on convex optimisation and semidefinite programming, and their application broadly in science and engineering. He is particularly interested in understanding algebraic structure in optimisation, and exploiting it to develop improved computational optimisation methods with performance guarantees.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Convex Optimization
- Semidefinite Programming
- Signal Processing
- Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics - Operations Research
- Applied Mathematics
- Computational Mathematics
- Optimization
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Projects
- 4 Active
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Exploiting duality in quantum relative entropy optimisation
Saunderson, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Fawzi, H. (Partner Investigator (PI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/04/25 → 31/03/28
Project: Research
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Night Adapted Eye survey and species classification system: realizing the capacity for real-time and cost-effective monitoring of pests on a landscape scale
Turner, L. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Helmerson, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Marks, C. A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Allen, B. L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Petersen, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Robinson, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Saunderson, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) (Australia) , Nocturnal Wildlife Research Pty Ltd (trading as Zoophotonics), Firmus Grid Pty Ltd, Definium Technologies Pty Ltd, University of Southern Queensland
3/06/22 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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Realising the potential of hyperbolic programming
Saunderson, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
1/03/21 → 12/12/25
Project: Research
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RACE for 2030: Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC)
Beins, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Bahrani, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Leroux, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Kraal, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Razzaghi, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Strengers, Y. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Goodwin, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Pink, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rudolph, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Raven, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Bergmeir, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Saunderson, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Leslie, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gangadharan, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Islam, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wang, L. C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ward, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Xiao, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wallace, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Tack, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stuckey, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Li, Y.-F. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Pan, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), de Nijs, F. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Buckingham, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Denis-Ryan, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ens, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Dargaville, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chang, X. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Yu, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), White, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Zlatanov, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hyndman, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Panagiotelis, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Athanasopoulos, G. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/07/20 → 30/06/31
Project: Research
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Spectral Polyhedra
Sanyal, R. & Saunderson, J., 6 Feb 2025, In: Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. 13, p. 1-12 12 p., e30.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A Bregman Proximal Perspective on Classical and Quantum Blahut-Arimoto Algorithms
He, K., Saunderson, J. & Fawzi, H., Aug 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70, 8, p. 5710-5730 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Efficient computation of the quantum rate-distortion function
He, K., Saunderson, J. & Fawzi, H., 9 Apr 2024, In: Quantum. 8, 44 p., 1314.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Hyperbolicity cones are amenable
Lourenço, B. F., Roshchina, V. & Saunderson, J., 2024, In: Mathematical Programming. 204, Series A, p. 753–764 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Information Rates of the Noisy Nanopore Channel
McBain, B., Viterbo, E. & Saunderson, J., Aug 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70, 8, p. 5640-5652 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Best Paper Prize 2020
Saunderson, J. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
- 1 Editorial responsibility
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SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (Journal)
James Saunderson (Associate editor)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility