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 (9)
eddystone10
gatt9
uid9
internet-of-things3
security3
android3
bluetooth2
mbed2
bluetooth-low-energy1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
googleinterns/wifirtt
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:20 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
roywant/EddystoneBeacon
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Google Open Source image for Eddystone Beacon supporting UID / URL / TLM / EID frames and GATT service
Contributions:54 commits, 46 PRs, 57 pushes in 11 months
eddystonegattuid
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