Biography of Professor Mark Campbell

Mark Campbell joined the Sibley School faculty at Cornell in 2001, and is currently an Associate Professor. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington from 1997-2001. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (B.S.) and MIT (M.S., Ph.D.), Professor Campbell worked on MACE, a dynamics and control laboratory flown on Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1995. For the mission, his responsibilities involved the design of many of the 500 multivariable control experiments implemented on-orbit. Professor Campbell is spending his 2005-06 sabbatical year as a Visiting Scientist at the Insitu group, maker of small autonomous UAV's for commercial and defense applications, and as an Australian Research Council (ARC) International Fellow, working at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems in Sydney Australia.

Professor Campbell has been 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. Professor Campbell received the 2004 AIAA Best paper award, the best paper at the 1998 Frontier's in Education conference, and the Bennet Prize and Andrew Carnegie Scholar award while 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).