Ramsey Faragher is the founder, president, and CTO of Focal Point Positioning Ltd, and the chairman and president of Focal Point Positioning Inc. He is also a bye-fellow of

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and lives in

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with his wife and three children. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, working in the ''Digital Technology Group'' on infrastructure-free smartphone positioning.

Education

Faragher graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Science degrees in experimental and theoretical physics from the

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in 2004. In 2008 he was awarded a PhD, supervised by Peter Duffett Smith with a thesis on the effects of multipath interference on radio positioning systems.

Industry

On completing his PhD, Faragher worked for

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where he was a technical lead for a number of navigation, tracking, and sensor fusion programmes, building on expertise in GPS-denied navigation using novel methods including opportunistic radio signals. He also developed the award-winning NAVSOP positioning suite. In 2014 Faragher was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Institute of Navigation in recognition of his accomplishments. His work in industry was also recognised by Top Gear, who described Faragher as a real-life Q. In 2020 Faragher was named by Wired magazine as one of 32 innovators who are building a better future. Faragher founded Focal Point Positioning in 2015 with members of the original NAVSOP team. In June 2020 Focal Point Positioning was awarded both The Duke of Edinburgh's Navigation Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement from the Royal Institute of Navigation, and the Hottest SpaceTech Startup in Europe accolade from the Europas.

References

External links

Ramsey Faragher's home page
at the

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Focal Point Positioning

Computer Laboratory

Queens' College
{{DEFAULTSORT:Faragher, Ramsey Living people Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory 1981 births