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 Queens' College and lives in Cambridge 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.
Ramsey Faragher | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Known for | NAVSOP |
| Awards | BAE Systems Early Career Engineer of the Year 2009, Institute of Navigation Burka Award 2016, GPS World Signals Leadership Award 2019, Institute of Navigation Per Enge Award 2019 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Navigation |
| Institutions | Cambridge University |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Duffett Smith |
| Website | sites |
Education
editFaragher graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Science degrees in experimental and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge 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.[1]
Career
editOn completing his PhD, Faragher worked for BAE Systems 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.[2] Faragher founded Focal Point Positioning in 2015 with members of the original NAVSOP team.[3]
Awards and recognition
editIn 2014 Faragher was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Institute of Navigation. 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,[4] and the Hottest SpaceTech Startup in Europe accolade from the Europas.[5] In 2023 Faragher was awarded both the Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation, and the Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics.[6][7]
His work in industry was also recognised by Top Gear, who described Faragher as a real-life Q.[8] In 2020 Faragher was named by Wired magazine as one of 32 innovators who are building a better future.[9]
Selected works
edit- Faragher, Ramsey; Harle, Robert (6 May 2015). "Location fingerprinting with bluetooth low energy beacons". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 33 (11): 2418–2428. doi:10.1109/JSAC.2015.2430281.
- Faragher, Ramsey (22 August 2012). "Understanding the Basis of the Kalman Filter Via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 29 (12). doi:10.1109/MSP.2012.2203621.
References
edit- ^ Faragher, Ramsey (2008). Effects of Multipath Interference on Radio Positioning Systems (PhD thesis).
- ^ "BAE Systems' Navsop navigation system rivals GPS". BBC News. 28 June 2012.
- ^ "Focal Point Positioning Ltd". Focal Point Positioning Ltd. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ "FocalPoint awarded Royal Institution of Navigation's highest award for Technical Achievement". Focal Point Positioning Ltd. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "Here are the winners of The Europas Awards 2020". techcrunch. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "Awards - Royal Institute of Navigation". Royal Institute of Navigation. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "The real life Q". 18 February 2013.
- ^ "Change everything: 32 innovators who are building a better future". Wired UK.