Richard DeVaul

Current

• Senior Prototype Scientist at Apple Inc.

Past

• Founder & President at AWare Technologies
• Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Texas A&M University

• Texas A&M University

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Recommendations

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Connections

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Industry

Research

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Richard DeVaul’s Summary

Research scientist and tech startup CTO with operational and executive experience. Excellent communications skills, strong engineering and applied math background. Inventor with issued and pending US patents, multiple peer-reviewed publications. M.S. and Ph.D. graduate of MIT Media Lab (Toshiba Fellow).

Richard DeVaul’s Specialties:

Technology and business leadership for early-stage companies, signal processing & statistical machine learning, business development, marketing and presentation materials design, product development for mobile & wearable technology, web 2.0, early-stage fund raising, marketing & business development.

Richard DeVaul’s Experience

• Senior Prototype Scientist

  Apple Inc.

  (Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 2010 — Present (9 months)

• Founder & President

  AWare Technologies

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  January 2004 — January 2010 (6 years 1 month)

  Co-founder, CTO/Senior Scientist, and President.

• Research Assistant

  MIT Media Lab

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  September 1997 — June 2004 (6 years 10 months)

  RA working with John Maeda (ACG group) and Sandy Pentland (VisMod/Human Design group)

Richard DeVaul’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Ph.D. , Media Arts & Sciences , 1999 — 2004

  Worked with Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland as part of the Human Dyanmics group at the MIT Media Lab. Ph.D. dissertation on "The Memory Glasses" real-time memory support system.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student leader and organizer of the MIThril wearable computing project.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  M.S. , Media Arts & Sciences , 1997 — 1999

  Worked with Professor John Maeda as part of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab

• Texas A&M University

  Visualization Science 1994 — 1997

  Worked with Professor Donald House of the Visualization Science Program in the College of Architecture. Completed most requirements for M.S. in Visualization science, but left for MIT before degree was granted. Wrote and defended thesis on novel dynamics constraints approximation algorithm for computer animation applications.

• Texas A&M University

  B.E.D. , Architecture, Anthropology, Physics , 1989 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Sigma Delta,

Additional Information

Richard DeVaul’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Richard DeVaul’s Groups:

•    Aggie Networking
•    MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni
•    MIT Media Lab Alumni
•    Thoughtful Reduction

Richard DeVaul’s Contact Settings

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• reference requests
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