Campbell Watson

Campbell Watson is a Senior Research Manager & Master Inventor at IBM Research in New York. He currently leads the Climate & Sustainability research team at the T. J. Watson Research Center in New York with a focus on AI foundation models for Earth and Space. Campbell is also Delivery Lead for the global research team who are developing AI technologies for scientific data and knowledge management in partnership with NASA, ESA, MIT and more.

From 2014-2020, Campbell was a core member of the IBM Deep Thunder team for weather and climate. The team was awarded a Corporate Technical Award for 'Weather Technology' in 2020—the highest technical award at IBM. He has served as PI on research projects with MILA, UIUC, RPI and more. He was associate editor of the AMS journal 'Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems.'

Campbell moved to the United States in 2012 for a postdoc position at Yale University where he studied clouds physics over Dominica and gravity waves over New Zealand. He received a PhD in atmospheric science from The University of Melbourne in Australia.