Residence Cambridge, England Known for NAVSOP Fields Navigation | Nationality British Name Ramsey Faragher | |
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Notable awards BAE Systems Early Career Engineer of the Year 2009, Institute of Navigation Burka Award 2016 | ||
Institutions Cambridge University Alma mater University of Cambridge Institution University of Cambridge Doctoral advisor Peter Duffett-Smith | ||
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Ramsey Faragher is the CEO and Founder of Focal Point Positioning Ltd. He is also a Bye-Fellow of Queens' College and lives in Cambridge. 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.
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Education
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.
Industry
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. 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.
Faragher founded Focal Point Positioning in 2015 with members of the original NAVSOP team.