Professor Matt James

Professor
Associate Director (research)
+61 2 612 54889

Professor James received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and the B.E. (Hon. I) in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 1988. In 1988/1989 Professor James was Visiting Assistant Professor with the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA, and from 1989 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor with the Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. In 1991 he joined the Australian National University, Australia, where he served as Head of the Department of Engineering during 2001 and 2002. He has held visiting positions with the University of California, San Diego, Imperial College, London, and University of Cambridge. His research interests include quantum, nonlinear, and stochastic control systems. Professor James is a co-recipient (with Drs L. Bouten and R. Van Handel) of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Best Paper Prize for 2007. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and has previously served SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, and Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and held an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship during 2004-2008.

ENGN2000 series courses
Code Title Year 20.. Semester
ENGN2707 Engineering Research and Devel... 18, 19, 20 S1, S2
ENGN3000 series courses
Code Title Year 20.. Semester
ENGN3706 Engineering Research and Devel... 18, 19, 20 S1, S2, Spring
ENGN3712 Engineering Research and Devel... 18, 19, 20 S1, S2, Spring
ENGN4000 series courses
Code Title Year 20.. Semester
ENGN4706 Engineering Research and Devel... 18, 19, 20 S1, S2
ENGN4712 Engineering Research and Devel... 18, 19, 21 S1, S2
ENGN4718 Engineering Research and Devel... 18, 19, 20 S1, S2, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring

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