Rate My Professor Jason Gross

Gross directs the WVU Navigation Laboratory, coordinates the university's robotics program, and leads WVU's Space Robotics Challenge 2 team. His research focuses on robotic systems and unmanned aerial systems, emphasizing perception and localization in GNSS-denied environments, cooperative UAV-UGV navigation, sensor fusion for attitude estimation, planetary rover navigation, subterranean exploration, and precision pollination robots. He has authored or co-authored over 35 journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and holds U.S. Patent No. 9,057,780 B2 for real-time precise orbit determination and positioning (2015). Key publications include 'Cooperative Localization for GNSS-Denied Subterranean Navigation: A UAV-UGV Team Approach' (NAVIGATION, 2024), 'Factor Graphs for Navigation Applications: A Tutorial' (NAVIGATION, 2024), 'Wind Sensing and Estimation Using Small Fixed-Wing UAVs: A Survey' (Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2021), and 'Robust UAV Relative Navigation with DGPS, INS and Peer-to-Peer Radio Ranging' (IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2015). Gross's impact is evidenced by awards such as the Institute of Navigation Per Enge Early Achievement Award and Samuel M. Burka Award (2024), elevation to AIAA Associate Fellow (2024), WVU Statler College Outstanding Research – Senior Level (2021), New Researcher of the Year (2016), West Virginia State Journal Generation Next 40 under 40 (2023), and NASA Space Robotics Challenge awards including 1st Place ($750,000, 2016). He is a member of IEEE-AESS Navigation Systems Panel, ION, and AIAA GNC Committee, supporting the department's large research enterprise and award-winning student design teams.