Michael Alan Saunders is a New Zealand American numerical analyst and computer scientist.
Saunders developed the MINRES method for the iterative solution of symmetric linear equation systems in 1975 together with Christopher Conway Paige.
Saunders spent another two years at his old position with DSIR before joining the Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) in the Operations Research department at Stanford University.
He has authored over 100 scientific papers on a variety of topics, including many with his colleagues Philip Gill, Walter Murray, and Margaret Wright.
[3] Saunders is a highly cited researcher in both computer science and mathematics on the ISI Web of Knowledge,[4] an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,[5] and a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) fellow.