The SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (until 1989: SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering matrix analysis and its applications. The relevant applications include signal processing, systems and control theory, statistics, Markov chains, and mathematical biology. The journal is published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The founding editor-in-chief was Gene H. Golub, who established the journal in 1980.