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.google.com/view/ramseyfaragher/

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.

## Education

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Faragher 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]

## Industry

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On 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] 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.[3] In 2020 Faragher was named by Wired magazine as one of 32 innovators who are building a better future.[4]

Faragher founded Focal Point Positioning in 2015 with members of the original NAVSOP team.[5] 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,[6] and the Hottest SpaceTech Startup in Europe accolade from the Europas.[7]

## References

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1. ^ Faragher, Ramsey (2008). Effects of Multipath Interference on Radio Positioning Systems (PhD thesis).
2. ^ "BAE Systems' Navsop navigation system rivals GPS". BBC News. 28 June 2012.
3. ^ "The real life Q". 18 February 2013.
4. ^ "Change everything: 32 innovators who are building a better future". Wired UK.
5. ^ "Focal Point Positioning Ltd". Focal Point Positioning Ltd. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
6. ^ "FocalPoint awarded Royal Institution of Navigation's highest award for Technical Achievement". Focal Point Positioning Ltd. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
7. ^ "Here are the winners of The Europas Awards 2020". techcrunch. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

## External links

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* Ramsey Faragher's home page at the Computer Laboratory
* Focal Point Positioning
* Computer Laboratory
* Queens' College