Sunil Vemuri is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of reQall Inc., a MIT Medialab spin off, and a NASA Research Partner. His areas of research include human memory assistance, information retrieval, information extraction, information visualization, knowledge acquisition, organizational memory, speech recognition, and interface/interaction design.

Prior to reQall, he worked at France Telecom’s Cambridge Lab. and Apple Computer. He has five patents and one patent pending. His research has been extensively covered in mainstream press.

During his student days, Vemuri worked at the Beckman Research Institute

Beckman Research Institute

The Beckman Research Institute is a research facility located at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, United States. It is dedicated to studying normal and abnormal biological processes which may be related to cancer. The institute was dedicated in 1952, and endowed by the...

 of the City of Hope hospital near Los Angeles, CA., with Terry Lee and created "MacProMass", a Macintosh program to aid in Mass Spectral Analysis and Protein Chemistry (it has been since renamed MacBioSpec). Vemuri received his Ph.D. from MIT Media Lab

MIT Media Lab

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, a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University

Stanford University

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, and his Bachelors Degree in Cybernetics from UCLA.

Patents

• 1996 Patent 5,873,107 for "System for automatically retrieving information relevant to text being authored". Borovoy, R., Machiraju, N.R., Graves. M., Vemuri. S.
• 1997 Patent 6,028,601 for "FAQ link creation between user's questions and answers". Machiraju, N.R., Graves, M., Vemuri, S., Chandhok, R., Lofgren, C.
• 1999 Patent 6,243,090 for "FAQ Linker". Machiraju, N.R., Graves, M., Vemuri, S., Chandhok, R., Lofgren, C.
• 2010 Patent 7,716,153 for "Memory assistance system...". Vemuri, S.
• 2011 Patent 7,912,454 for "Method and system for archiving data in real-time communications" Vemuri, S. Machiraju N. R.
• Patent Pending for "Method And System For Sharing Portable Voice Profiles". Jacqueline Mallett, Sunil Vemuri, N. Rao Machiraju.

Publications

• Vemuri, S., Schmandt, C., Bender, W., Tellex, S., Lassey, B. "An audio-based personal memory aid." In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing. September 7–10, 2004. Nottingham, UK. 400–417. (2004). pdf
• Vemuri, S., DeCamp, P., Bender, W., Schmandt, C. "Improving Speech Playback Using Time-Compression and Speech Recognition" In Proceedings of CHI 2004. pdf
• Vemuri, S., Schmandt, C., Bender, W. "iRemember: A Personal Long-term Memory Prosthesis". In Proc. of CARPE 2006 (October 2006). pdf
• Vemuri, S., Bender, W. "Next-generation personal memory aids." In BT Technology Journal. 22(4) 125–138 (October 2004). pdf
• Vemuri. S. "Personal long-term memory aids". Ph.D. Dissertation. MIT Media Lab. (September 2004) pdf
• Borovoy, R., Martin, F., Vemuri, S., Resnick, M., Silverman, B., and Hancock, C. "Meme Tags and Community Mirrors: moving from conferences to collaboration" in Proceedings of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 159–168. (1998). pdf