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. Dr. Archer 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 US Government and private industry. He is a member of the US-wide Expert Panel for the US National Secure Data Service; a founding member of the United Nations Privacy Preserving Task Team; served as one of seven judges nationwide in the US 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.