RESUME

Dr. Frank Gross
Director Sensor Systems Research Lab and the Navy Bioluminescence Lab

Education:
Dr. Gross received his B. S. and M. S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Florida in 1974 and 1975, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1982.

Teaching Experience:
Dr. Gross has been teaching electrical engineering courses since 1974. He has taught for 16 years at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in such subjects as Electromechanical Dynamics, Numerical Methods, Microwave Engineering, Circuit Theory, Electromagnetics, Electrostatics, Propagation, Antennas, Adaptive Arrays, Sonar, Radar, Signals and Systems, Communications, and Advanced EM.

Honors/Awards/Affiliations:
Dr. Gross graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Florida. He was a recipient of the Harris Intertype Radiation Scholarship. He has been a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, American Society of Engineering Education and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society., He was nominated Teacher of the Year by Tau Beta Pi.

Publications:
Dr. Gross has published over 47 articles and reports.

Research Background/Experience:
From 1975-1977 Dr. Gross did research at the Electronic Communications lab in Gainesville on evaluating FM/CW radar ranging systems. From 1977-1982 he studied electromagnetic scattering and target classification at the Ohio State University Electroscience Laboratory developing dynamic models for scattering from tank treads.

He served as a Senior Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1986-1987, where he directed projects on material metrology, frequency selective surface design , narrow band radome design and radar absorbing materials.

From 1987 to 1988 he was a Lead Engineer with MITRE Corporation, evaluating electromagnetic models for high frequency diffraction using GTD and Equivalent Currents, calculating radar cross sections of various targets, feature selection for target classification, radar performance, and radome design for narrow band multilayer structures.

He also worked for NASA in Langley, VA as a NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellow. At Langley, he helped develop a Pulsed Compact Range for radar target measurements. For three summers he has been appointed as a NAVY/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at the Coastal Systems Station in Panama City, FL. He was assigned work in using Finite Elements to model the magnetic fields surrounding underwater mines.

He also has developed for the Navy a time-domain Synthetic Aperture Sonar simulator and beamformer. This tool will be used primarily to test motion compensation schemes used by the Navy. He has worked for the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) on developing new pseudo-noise codes to defeat modern threat detectors. He developed a simulation including several passive threat detectors, propagation and signal design. He has performed research for NASA/Kennedy on testing the tribo-electric charging of Martian regolith soil to assist NASA in designing future Mars missions.

Most Recently he has been developing techniques to suppress bioluminescence in dinoflagellates using magnetic fields to alter the cell membrane action potential. He currently serves as a consultant on the subject of Smart Antennas.

Dr. Gross has had numerous government and private industry contracts. He has been PI or co-PI on approximately $7M in research. His sponsors include: McDonnell-Douglass, Navy, Florida High Technology and Industry Council, NSF, US Special Operations Command, and NASA.

His present research interests are focused in the areas of radar and sonar simulations, waveform design and signal processing, adaptive arrays and bearing estimation, and biophysics.