About

About

Mission Statement

At EpiCognix, our mission is to create an intelligent system that reason with values. We believe AI must be more than computational power. It must be capable of making responsible, explainable, and ethically aligned decisions.

Founder

EpiCognix was founded by Eugene E. Kim, a mechanical engineer with nearly 30 years of experience in product design, systems engineering, and innovation. Over the course of his career, Eugene has developed a deep engineering intuition. The ability to judge not only whether a design works, but whether it is the right design under real-world constraints of safety, reliability, and impact.

The journey toward EpiCognix began with a simple question: could an AI system develop this same kind of engineering intuition? Eugene recognized that most AI tools in engineering focused narrowly on computation, optimization, or automation, but not on judgment, the values-driven reasoning that guides responsible engineering decisions.

What began as an effort to build a smarter mechanical engineering AI grew into a broader mission: developing an AI framework that can reason with values at its core. From the beginning of its development, Eugene called it Smart Model (SM) and later designated it to mean Symbolic Memory and Reasoning Technology Model. Mechanical engineering would serve as the proving ground, but the long-term vision is an ethically aware intelligence that can navigate decisions across domains where technical progress must align with human responsibility.

Eugene can be found on LinkedIn