Aculus is a software company founded upon proprietary pattern recognition algorithms developed at the University of Utah. AcuLink, our flagship product, analyzes web log data and generates specific recommendations of how links shoud be used on the website.

Dr. Olivia Sheng

Dr. Olivia Sheng, CEO, President and Chief Scientist, is a Presidential Professor and Emma Eccles Jones Presidential Chair of Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. Her research focuses on global information technology and management including distributed enterprise data and knowledge management, electronic commerce, telemedicine, telework and distributed learning. The research issues examined include content caching, personalized portal design, data warehouse and mining, object-oriented models and methods for data and knowledge base and application design, performance and architectural issues in data warehouse and ERP applications, and information technology management. She is directing the e.bis (enterprise and business intelligence system) lab where such research is housed. She has published in over 30 journal articles and has received funding from the U.S. Army, NSF, IBM, Toshiba Corp., Sun Microsystems, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Asia Productivity Organization and SAP University Alliance.

Dr. Sheng received a B.S. degree from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, R.O.C. and Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Computers and Information Systems from the University of Rochester. She joined the faculty of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona in 1985 and was the Department Head from 1997 to 2002. She has been visiting faculty at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Jonathan Randall

Jonathan Randall, VP Product Development, has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah and has been the development lead on the aculus technology project. His experience includes: design and implementation of large scale software programs, advanced research in artificial intelligence and machine learning software, and development of sophisticated data mining algorithms.