Konstantin Gromov Phd, RF Design Consultant

Konstantin graduated from Leningrad State University with a BS and MA in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics before going on to Graduate school at Stanford University. Konstantin’s  PhD Thesis at Stanford was “Generalized Interference Detection and Localization System” or GIDL.  The GIDL system was designed to identify and locate jamming in the GPS band and help protect the WAAS and LAAS aircraft landing systems.  This involved hardware and software design and the manufacturing of the complete system.

After Stanford Konstantin a joined Sportbug, a start-up that used GPS for measuring athletes performance.  Konstantin was instrumental in developing a specialized omnidirectional patented GPS antenna for this application. He was also instrumental in a  a revolutionary design of the Sportbug product that eliminated the need for bulky RF shielding.  When Sportbug  evolved into Traxsis Konstantin was instrumental in the design of a high sensitivity GPS cell phone add on module.  This cell phone tracking unit was one of the first of its kind and was responsible for Axiom Navigation acquiring Traxsis.

After Traxsis Konstantin was a Senior Research Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he Designed, analyzed, and simulated guidance and sensor systems for various missions including MSL, MER, and JIMO.  He also Performed rapid prototyping for flight critical components for the MER, MSL and Cassini programs and developed flight control software for robotic systems on the MER program.

Konstantin was a co-founder of  Geotrax with the rest of the Sportbug/Traxis development team.  There he was instrumental in developing a GPS tracking product used to recover stolen currency from bank robbers.  As a direct result of Konstanint’s RF expertise Geotrax was able to commercialized the product and had its first arrest with in 12 months.  After 3SI Security, GeoTrax’s biggest customer, acquired GeoTrax Konstantin continued as an employee and then as a consultant for 3SI Security  helping 3SI overcome many antenna and RF design issues.