Roy Want
Principal Scientist at Google / Android
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Want is a Principal Scientist based in Los Altos with over three decades of research and industry impact and 11 years at Google driving indoor positioning across Wi‑Fi, UWB and Bluetooth. An IEEE and ACM Fellow and recipient of ACM SIGMOBILE’s Outstanding Contributions Award, he has shaped standards as Technical Editor for IEEE 802.11az and 802.11bk and translated cutting‑edge research into deployable systems. His career spans leadership roles at PARC, Intel, and as Editor‑in‑Chief for IEEE Pervasive Computing, blending deep protocol expertise with product‑grade engineering. Less obvious is his sustained influence on positioning interoperability—helping bridge academic advances and commercial ecosystems to make accurate indoor location broadly practical.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Cambridge
Github Skills (16)
beacon10
eddystone10
specification10
uri10
internet9
gatt8
eid8
uid6
iot6
google4
internet-of-things3
bluetooth2
security2
bluetooth-low-energy2
android2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roywant/EddystoneBeacon
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 46 PRs, 57 pushes in 11 months
uidgooglegatteidbeacon
googleinterns/wifirtt
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:20 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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