Dr. James Archibald received his BS in Mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1981 and his MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1983. He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Washington in 1987 and joined the faculty of Brigham Young University in that same year.

Dr. Archibald's research interests include autonomous multi-agent systems and robotics. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in computer architecture, real-time embedded systems, digital design, and robotics.

Dr. Archibald is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, and Phi Kappa Phi. He is a reviewer for several scholarly publications.