Mark Campbell

Mark Campbell joined the Sibley School faculty at Cornell in 2001, and is currently the John A. Mellowes ’60 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; he served as the S. C. Thomas Sze Director for the Sibley School in 2011-2019. Prior to Cornell, Professor Campbell 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. As an academic, he has led research programs with strong impact broadly in aerospace and robotic systems, including control of flexible structures, formation flying spacecraft, student-designed and built satellites, cooperative UAVs, self-driving cars, and human-robotic teaming.

Professor Campbell spent sabbaticals as a Visiting Scientist at the Insitu group, maker of small autonomous UAV’s for commercial and defense applications; as an Australian Research Council International Fellow, working at the Australian Centre for Robotics (ACFR); and as a Visiting Scientist at Draper Labs. Professor Campbell was among a small group tenured faculty members across all disciplines in science and engineering selected for the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). He then served on the Air Force Science Advisory Board (SAB), for which he received the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Award for Exceptional Public Service.

Professor Campbell has a passion for undergraduate teaching, with a focus on active learning and experiential projects. He has received multiple university and national teaching excellence awards including Cornell’s Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Award, Ralph S. Watts `72 Award, Douglas Whitney Award, Stephen Miles `57 Award, UW Aero Astro Professor of the Year award,  Frontier’s in Education Young Faculty Fellow, and American Society of Engineering Education Teaching Award. Professor Campbell received best paper awards from the AIAA (two), CPS-SPC, Frontier’s in Education, and best poster award at the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems; he also received the Bennet Prize from CMU and is an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. He has served as an Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics and the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and Associate Director on the American Automatic Control Council Board of Directors (member of IFAC). Professor Campbell is a Fellow of the AIAA, IEEE and ASME.