Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D

President and CTO, AWare Technologies

Dr. DeVaul is an experienced tech startup CTO with operational and executive experience. He has excellent communications skills and a strong engineering and applied math background. He is an inventor with one issued and two pending US patents and multiple peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. DeVaul co-founded AWare Technologies in 2004, and has served variously as CTO, CEO, and Senior Scientist since the company's beginning.

Prior to AWare Dr. DeVaul was a Toshiba Fellow Ph.D student at the MIT Media Lab where he instigated and led the MIThril wearable computing project. His thesis topic was "The Memory Glasses," a wearable memory-support system that was featured on Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda.

Dr. DeVaul holds Master of Science ('98) and Doctor of Philosophy degrees ('04) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University (class of '93).

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