Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D
President and CEO, AWare Technologies
Dr. DeVaul co-founded AWare Technologies in January of 2004 and became president and CEO in August of 2006. Dr. DeVaul graduated from the MIT Media Lab with his Ph.D. in 2004. His thesis topic was "The Memory Glasses," a wearable memory-support system that was featured on Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda. While a Ph.D. student at the Media Lab, Dr. DeVaul was a founding organizer and graduate student leader of the MIThril wearable computing project, which focused on developing a distributed, clothing-integrated wearable computing research platform.
Dr. DeVaul is listed as the principle inventor on several pending and one issued patents and is first author on half a dozen peer reviewed publications. Dr. DeVaul is a frequently invited speaker on the topic of wearable technology and its applications at academic conferences.
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