Ramsey FaragherFounder

United Kingdom - Greater Cambridge Area

Dr Ramsey Faragher is a world-leading expert in GNSS-denied positioning, sensor fusion, and
machine-learning for navigation systems. He is the Founder, President, CTO and an Executive Director of Focal Point Positioning Ltd. and is leading the development of game-changing new technologies to set new standards in GNSS, indoor positioning and autonomous positioning systems. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Bye Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where he developed the first online SLAM-based indoor positioning system for smartphones.

Earlier in his career he was a Principal Scientist at the BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre where he developed the award-winning and patented NAVSOP opportunistic positioning suite and other GNSS-denied tracking technologies. In 2009 he won the BAE Systems Early Career Engineer of the Year award for developing NAVSOP.

Ramsey has developed and recommended state-of-the-art improvements to the navigation systems of manned and autonomous platforms in the land, air and sea domains working with BAE Systems, MOD, ESA, RSSB and a number of SMEs. He regularly contributes to BBC Naked Scientists broadcasts, writes for Forbes, and has also provided science advice for two television production companies.

Specialities: Deep-tech startups, GNSS signal processing, Opportunistic Radio Positioning, GPS-Denied Navigation, Multipath Mitigation, Sensor Fusion, Remote Sensing, Bayesian Inference, Autonomy, Machine Learning, Physics, Systems Engineering.