Daniel Archer

Daniel Jackson Archer is a Christian mechanical engineering student graduating in May of 2026 at Liberty University with minors in mathematics and computer science. In everything that he does, he aims to glorify God and advance his kingdom. From Spring 2023 to the present, he has served on Liberty University’s Human Powered Vehicle Competition (HPVC) Team and NASA Human-powered Exploration Rover Challenge, leading the design and manufacturing of the wheels and frame for the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 years, respectively. He has been certified by Dassault Systemes with a SolidWorks Associate Certification in Mechanical Design. During his internship at TENNLab, based at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he assisted in the research of SNNs for control applications, specifically the Ant-v4 benchmark problem from MuJoCo, Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity, swarm robotics, hyperparameter optimization, and training SNNs using EONS, an evolutionary optimization algorithm specifically designed for training neuromorphic systems. During the 2024–2025 academic year, he constructed a robot mimicking the Ant-v4 model and trained SNNs using EONS in the Ant-v4 environment to eventually integrate and create a real-life implementation of a walking Ant-v4 model. In his spare time, Daniel enjoys reading, rock climbing, and playing games.