Company

Acelot is a private company founded in 2006 using technology developed at UCSB that has been validated through multiple peer-reviewed publications. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, the company has received a number of SBIR grants from the National Institute of Health. Our team of scientists and developers consists of:

• Professor Ambuj K Singh: The founder of Acelot, Prof. Singh has authored over 140 scientific papers in the areas of bioinformatics, data mining, databases, and graph algorithms. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor in the departments of Computer Science and Biomolecular Science & Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He works on developing the basic data and graph analysis methods that form the core IP of the company.

 

• Dr. William Lindstrom: Dr. Lindstrom received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was a Burroughs-Wellcome Fund La Jolla Interfaces in Science Fellow at The Scripps Research Institute, where he contributed to the development of AutoDock and AutoDockTools and the distributed computing project, FightAIDS@Home. Prior to this he worked as a software engineer at Xerox and Wavefront Technologies. He is leading the validation of results from tools and assays on predicted compounds.

 

• Vivek Kankanhalli: Vivek holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has extensive experience in statistical modeling and multimedia data mining as well as software development.