| Ramsey Faragher | |
| Birth Date: | 1981 |
| Birth Place: | England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Field: | Navigation |
| Work Institution: | Cambridge University |
| Alma Mater: | Cambridge University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Peter Duffett Smith |
| Known For: | NAVSOP |
| Prizes: | 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 |
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.
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]
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]