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Matthew R. James was born in Sydney, Australia. He 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 Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 1988.

From 1978 to 1984 he was employed by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales (now Pacific Power), Sydney, Australia. From 1985 to 1988 he held a Fellowship with the Systems Research Center (now Institute for Systems Research), University of Maryland, College Park, USA. In 1988/1989 he 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. From 1991 to 1995 he was Research Fellow and Fellow with the Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. In 1995, Professor James joined the Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where he served as Head during 2001/2002. He has been an Associate Editor for Automatica, MCSS, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Professor James is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of IEAust. Since January 2004 he has held an ARC Professorial Fellowship. He was a member of the ARC's College of Experts in 2005-2006.