David Archer

Dr. Archer has over 30 years of research and development experience in system hardware and software architecture, secure computation, cryptography, and data-intensive systems. Currently, Dr. Archer leads projects in several DARPA programs, including the SafeWare program (cryptographic program obfuscation); the Brandeis program (privacy-preserving computation and databases); and the Transparent Computing program (analysis of computation by its provenance). Dr. Archer also heads research projects for IARPA and the Department of Homeland Security.

At Galois, Dr. Archer leads the company’s research work on secure multi-party computation, applied cryptography, information security, and data provenance. 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.