Stuart Campbell

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5578
scampbell@bnl.gov

Pronouns: he, him, his

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Expertise

The main focus of Stuart's career has been focused on how to best the apply the use of IT infrastructure and computational techniques at large scale experimental user facilities such as Neutron, Muon and Light Sources in order to help maximize their scientific impact. This has covered many areas from development of advanced data acquisition systems, data management and onto data reduction and analysis together with infrastucture design that is required to make it all possible. 

Stuart is a strong advocate in expanding the use of Open Source Software (OSS) together with Open Data and Open Science & Research. He has been involved in a number of cross facility and laboratory open source software projects,  some examples of these are Bluesky (https://blueskyproject.io), Mantid (https://www.mantidproject.org), GDA (http://www.opengda.org) and OpenGENIE. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Salford, UK (1998). "Design of a high resolution time-of-flight crystal analyser spectrometer and hydrogen diffusion in intermetallic compounds", Supervisor: D.K. Ross
• B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics, University of Salford, UK (1994)

Professional Appointments

• 1998 Research Fellow, ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
• 1999 Visiting Researcher, Chemstry Dept, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
• 2000 Senior Scientific Officer, ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
• 2004 Data Acquisition Scientist, Diamond Light Source Ltd, UK
• 2008 Scientific Software Engineer, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• 2010 Lead for Inelastic Software, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• 2013 Data Analysis Team Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• 2017 Group Leader, Data Acquisition, Management and Analysis, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
• 2021 NSLS-II Chief Data Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
• 2021 Deputy Program Manager, DSSI, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
• 2024 Deputy Division Director, DSSI, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Selected Publications

• Campbell SI, Allan DB, Barbour AM, et al (2021) Outlook for artificial intelligence and machine learning at the NSLS-II. Machine Learning: Science and Technology 2:013001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/abbd4e
• Allan D, Caswell T, Campbell S, Rakitin M (2019) Bluesky's Ahead: A Multi-Facility Collaboration for an a la Carte Software Project for Data Acquisition and Management. Synchrotron Radiation News 32:19–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/08940886.2019.1608121
• Könnecke M, Akeroyd FA, Bernstein HJ, et al (2015) The NeXus data format. Journal of Applied Crystallography 48:301–305. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576714027575
• Shipman G, Campbell S, Dillow D, et al (2014) Accelerating Data Acquisition, Reduction, and Analysis at the Spallation Neutron Source. 2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on e-Science. https://doi.org/10.1109/escience.2014.31
• Arnold O, Bilheux JC, Borreguero JM, et al (2014) Mantid—Data analysis and visualization package for neutron scattering and μ SR experiments. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 764:156–166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.07.029
• Peterson PF, Campbell SI, Reuter MA, et al (2015) Event-based processing of neutron scattering data. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 803:24–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.09.016
• Borreguero JM, Campbell SI, Delaire OA, et al (2014) Integrating Advanced Materials Simulation Techniques into an Automated Data Analysis Workflow at the Spallation Neutron Source. TMS 2014: 143rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition 297–308. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48237-8_39

Awards & Recognition

• 2024 - NOBUGS Bill Pulford Prize for Bluesky.
• 2022 - Brookhaven Pinacle Award for Engineering for his work on Bluesky.
• 2012 - ORNL Significant Event Award for his work on the ADARA project

Stuart serves on the follow community organizations:

• Chair, Bluesky Project Advisory Board
• NSLS-II Representative, Light Source Directors Data and Computing Steering Committee
• BNL Representative,  New Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS) International Advisory Committee