Bio
Kent Campbell is a Full-Stack Software Engineer within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. Additionally he has been participating in the Climate Change Science Institute where he serves as Software Developer for the NASA/ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics since 2020. Kent joined the IARPA HAYSTAC Project in 2024 as a Programmer and Database Developer.
Prior to coming to ORNL, Kent worked as a programmer, analyst, and project lead in a diverse number of fields, including radiation detection, radiation protection, and hydrology and hydrodynamic modeling, while developing new software to support in-house and external projects, to perform quality checks on modeling outputs, and to improve user interface efficiency.
Kent received a B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University of South Bend in 2007.
Kent has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, including “Anisotropy Analysis of Ultra-Fine Grain Graphite and Pyrolytic Carbon,” “Cold Water and High Ice Cover on Great Lakes in Spring 2014,” and “Development and application of a North American Great Lakes hydrometeorological database - Part I: Precipitation, evaporation, runoff, and air temperature.”