Shane Ross

Professor | Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

sdross@vt.edu

Lab Website: Ross Dynamics Lab
Publications: Google Scholar

Professor Ross is one of the founders of BIOTRANS program. His research group at Virginia Tech specializes in applications of nonlinear dynamics, performing data-driven modeling, simulation, visualization, and experiments with applications in several different fields, including: patterns of dispersal in oceanic and atmospheric flows, passive and active aerodynamic gliding, dynamic buckling of flexible structures, transport across the airwater interface, orbital mechanics, chemical physics, and causality analysis in complex natural and artificial systems. He is author of more than 150 publications, including 80 journal articles (5,500 citations, h-index of 36). He has spoken to thousands of people at dozens of universities worldwide including MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, UCLA, UCSB, Duke, Michigan, Maryland, Texas A&M, UNC Chapel Hill, TU Munich, Toronto, Warwick, ETH Zurich, Leiden, Madrid, and Barcelona, and at several prestigious international forums, including the British Science Festival and the Zurich Physics Colloquium. His research has been featured in the pages of Nature, Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Science News, American Scientist, Astronomy, the Times of London, the BBC, and several other international news outlets, including those in India, Russia, Finland, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, and China. He has obtained externally sponsored research projects totaling $14 million, including a prestigious NSF CAREER award. He has supervised 14 PhD and 3 MS students to the completion of their degrees, all of whom have gone on to positions in industry, government, or academia (3 are now professors). He is currently supervising 6 more PhD and MS students He has a bachelor’s degree in physics and a PhD in control and dynamical systems, both from Caltech (California Institute of Technology). He has worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and Boeing.