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    David W. Archer

    CTO, Niobium Microsystems
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    David Archer, Ph.D., is Chief Technology Officer of Niobium Microsystems, maker of cutting-edge hardware acceleration for privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), and the first company to develop ASIC-based accelerators for Fully Homomorphic Encryption. He has over 40 years of research and development experience in system hardware and software architecture, secure computation, cryptography, and data-intensive systems. 

    Dr. Archer leads and has led 12 years of research in PETs, applied cryptography, and information security totaling over $75M in investment by the U.S. Government and private industry. He’s a member of the U.S.-wide Expert Panel for the U.S. National Secure Data Service; a founding member of the United Nations Privacy Preserving Task Team; served as one of seven judges nationwide in the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge; and serves on the cryptographic advisory board of cutting-edge company Callisto Project. 

    Dr. Archer holds a PhD in Computer Science from Portland State University, and an MS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.