Steven Donaldson

Partner

Summary

Steven is a mathematician, software developer, and founding partner at Polymathian. He has over 11 years of experience applying operations research techniques to solve and deploy optimisation, simulation, and machine learning decision support tools to industry.

Steven has worked across a wide range of domains including mining; rolling stock optimisation; logistics; vehicle routing; traffic management; coal seam gas; and aviation.

He is passionate about working directly with clients to understand how to best combine technological innovation and mathematics to unlock value in their business. Steven's key achievements in this space include the development of ORB, the first optimisation based real-time dispatch system for underground mines, as well as Tropofy, the central framework that enables Polymathian to rapidly build and deploy user-focused web applications to clients.

Steven regularly engages with the universities in Brisbane across both mathematics and software faculties, including recently providing feedback to the QUT mathematics re-accreditation process.

Expertise

Product Expertise

Academic and Professional Service Experience

  • Guest Speaker for graduation (maths, electrical engineering, computer science and IT), Queensland University of Technology, 2018
  • Provided feedback to mathematics undergraduate and masters program re-accreditation process, Queensland University of Technology, 2018
  • Various guest presentations at The University of Queensland and QUT 2004 - present
  • Management Science Society Guest Speaker, London School of Economics, 2012

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