Rao Machiraju

Who is Rao Machiraju?

Nagabhushan "Rao Machiraju" is the Co-founder and CEO of reQall Inc., an MIT Media Lab spin off and a NASA Research Partner. He is also the Co-founder of Magically Inc.,

N.Rao Machiraju, was a Principal Scientist at Apple Inc., heading various groups including The Advanced Technology Group Learning Communities Laboratory. Rao and his team have won the 1993 Optimas Award for Innovation and Excellence for Apple Inc. Rao also was a Co-founder of ConceptLabs.

Rao Machiraju is an Indian American Scientist and holds 10 patents in information retrieval. He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health, General Systems and Information Networks, and Ed.D in Instructional Technology. Rao worked on a number of research and development efforts in information retrieval, organizational memory, wrote a number of articles and also lectured extensively. In 1996, the term “location sense” was coined by Rao Machiraju to refer to a capability of a device that can ascertain its location. Rao was also on the editorial boards of Journal of Expert Systems and Journal of Telematics and Informatics as a Founding member.