Richard W. DeVaul, Ph.D.
Distinguished Moonshot Engineer · Dark Matter Lab · Relativity Space
Building things that should not exist yet_
// about
MIT Media Lab PhD. Machine learning, wearables, context-aware computing. Serial entrepreneur, co-founder of XNET Mobile. Led innovation teams at Google X and Apple. Now Distinguished Moonshot Engineer at Dark Matter Lab (Relativity Space), focused on agentic engineering for aerospace, wireless power for vehicles and robots, space launch and hybrid propulsion, and other things that actually matter.
Active open source work in agentic AI infrastructure: context graphs, cryptographically signed agent skills, prompt injection detection, voice interfaces. Building the plumbing for trustworthy autonomous systems.
Inventor on ~70 issued US patents. Occasional writer. Permanent contrarian.
// open source
// agentic infrastructure
contextgraph
Directed acyclic context graph for LLM context management. Tag-based retrieval replacing linear sliding windows.
skill-signer
Cryptographic signing for AI agent skills using SSH Ed25519 keys. Verifiable trust for agentic ecosystems.
skill-registry
Registry server for cryptographically signed AI agent skills.
prompt-lint
Prompt injection detector for agentic pipelines. Lint text/markdown before an agent processes it.
glados-voice-pwa
Mobile-first voice interface PWA for AI assistants. Push-to-talk, streaming WebSocket, local STT.
// agentic and procedural design
// prior work
Apple
Innovation team lead.
Resonant Wireless Power · X Development
R&D lead on wireless power delivery systems. Multiple issued patents.
Project Loon · Google X
Stratospheric balloon navigation, optical communications, and global connectivity. Lead inventor on navigation and deployment systems.
MIThril Wearable Computing · MIT Media Lab
Context-aware computing platform. PhD research in machine learning for wearable systems.
// patents
~70 issued US patents spanning stratospheric navigation, optical communications, wireless power, and agentic systems.
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