Campbell Watson

Campbell Watson is a Senior Research Manager & Master Inventor at IBM Research in New York. He 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 with NASA.

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 MIT, MILA, UIUC & RPI and was associate editor of '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.