Dr. Campbell received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1970. In the 80's he did two years of graduate study in computer science at UAB. In 1990 he was a Cray Research Fellow and did research in parallel computing. In the summers of 1999 and 2000 he was a NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunstville, AL.

His most recent research is in indexing permutations.