Peter L. Levin

Peter L. Levin is an American entrepreneur, professor, and inventor in areas of technology and public policy. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Amida Technology Solutions, which focuses on data and data security. From 2009 to 2013 he served as Chief Technology Officer for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Levin received his B.S., M.S., and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He was a DAAD visiting scientist and post-doctoral student at the Institute for High Voltage Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He started his academic career as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator during the first Bush Administration for his work in electromagnetic and acoustic field theory and high performance computing. In 1994 he spent a sabbatical year as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Department of Mathematical Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and in 1995 he was selected to be a White House Fellow. Levin was appointed associate dean for research and graduate programs at Boston University’s College of Engineering in 1997.

In 1999, Levin joined the international venture capital firm, Techno Venture Management. He was subsequently an executive director of the open source network company Astaro, a board member of the semiconductor design automation company NeoLinear, and a co-founder of the GPS-based cybersecurity company Zanio. In 2003, Levin co-founded DAFCA, INC., a semi-conductor design software company. DAFCA won a NIST Advanced Technology Program Award in 2004.

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