Dr. Campbell is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University with research interests in statistical estimation and inference, cooperative control, and semi-autonomous systems. Dr. Campbell has served as PI for two multi-investigator DARPA programs: SEC and MICA. In SEC, Dr. Campbell was the first researcher to design and utilize an auxiliary processor for Insitu Group’s ScanEagle UAV. Flight demonstrations included the Open Control Platform real-time middleware developed by Boeing for DARPA. Tracking and vehicle estimation work on the SEC program was successfully transferred to Insitu’s production UAV’s. In MICA, multi-vehicle+operator software developed by Cornell is now the 6.1 software for the AFRL/HE 6.2 program Multi-Modal Immersive Intelligent Interface for Remote Operation.

Dr. Campbell received his M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in Control and Estimation and B.S. from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to his appointment at Cornell, Prof. Campbell was an Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Washington and a Research Associate/Lecturer at MIT. Dr. Campbell spent 2005-06 in two positions: 1) as a Visiting Scientist at the Insitu Group, maker of autonomous UAV's for commercial and defense applications, successfully developing tracking algorithms for their production UAV’s, and 2) as an Australian Research Council International Fellow, working at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) in Sydney Australia on sensor fusion and estimation of operator + field robotic systems.

Dr. Campbell was the recipient of the 2005 Stephen Miles '57 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award at Cornell and the 1999 Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor of the Year award. Dr. Campbell has published over 100 technical papers; awards include a 2004 AIAA Best paper award, best paper at the 1998 Frontier's in Education conference, the Bennet Prize, and the Andrew Carnegie Scholar award at Carnegie Mellon. He is currently a senior member of the AIAA, member of the AIAA GNC technical committee, and an Associate Director on the American Automatic Control Council Board of Directors (member of IFAC).

Website: http://www.mae.cornell.edu/campbell