Shane Ross
- Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
- College of Engineering
Synopsis:
The Ross Dynamics Lab specializes in applications of nonlinear dynamics, performing data-driven modeling, simulation, visualization, and experiments with applications in several different fields, including: airborne transport of microbes, patterns of dispersal in oceanic and atmospheric flows, passive and active aerodynamic gliding, dynamic buckling of flexible structures, transport across the air-water interface, and causality analysis in complex natural and artificial systems.
Description:
Dr. Ross has advanced the state-of-the-art in the analysis and visualization of environmental transport. Along with Dr. David Schmale (SPES), he initiated the use of atmospheric transport barriers in understanding the biological invasion of microorganisms, particularly plant diseases of agricultural crops. He has done field work and Lagrangian transport computations analyzing the dispersal of hazardous material in aquatic environments, including lakes and oceans, with other applications to spread of debris and persons in search-and-rescue scenarios.
Dr. Ross founded an interdisciplinary graduate education program on biological transport (called Biotrans) that began in 2010 and has now cross-trained over 25 PhD students at the engineering-biology interface. He helped shepherd the program’s transition to sustained internal funding, contributing to an infrastructure of interdisciplinary discovery at the intersection of engineering and biology which will have impacts for years to come.