Get to Know K, Dr. Eng.
Scientist, systems architect, and pioneer of agentic AI. See his vision, his journey, and the platform he built to transform the world.
K
Welcome to the Age of AI,
I've been waiting for you!
K built AI agents 15 years before you heard of them. Now he helps companies level up their game and disrupt their industries with AI.
Let's Connect
Whether it's a consultation, a speaking engagement, or just a conversation about AI — reach out.
What K Has Built
From agent runtimes to AI-powered business platforms — each product represents 18 years of research turned into shipping software.
Universal AI Platform
General-purpose technology for rapid development and deployment of multi-domain, multi-channel agentic AI systems, with all cutting-edge capabilities such as planning, reasoning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation for unlimited memory and context.
Outlook for the Age of AI — AI executive assistant with 50+ skills.
Your AI-powered executive assistant — the Outlook of the Age of AI. Manages your email, calendar, tasks, and communications with 50+ skills including web research, document analysis, image processing, video generation, and SMS write-assist — all powered by Universal AI.
Your tireless first responder for client communications.
Your tireless first responder. Handles client inquiries across chat, phone, SMS, and avatar — with deep integration into your CRM, corporate knowledge base, and internal systems. First line of defense with issue tracking and auto-escalation. Powered by Universal AI.
Maximum power in minimum space — the AI interface built for human experience.
UniBar packs more power than any AI app you know, yet elegantly arranges itself to give your screen to what matters most: the conversation. A radically minimal interface designed for organic human experience, powered by Universal AI.
Face-to-face conversation with a lifelike, customizable AI.
Have a face-to-face conversation with your AI agent — represented as a lifelike 3D avatar that converses and handles tasks in real time. Customizable embodiments for any use case, powered by Universal AI.
Products Built on Universal AI
All AI-agent local news agency — disrupting a $12B industry.
Fully autonomous AI agents researching, filtering, and producing local news around the clock — podcasts, newsletters, event calendars, and social content in multiple languages. Census-based demographic scoring ensures coverage that matters to real communities. Scaling cost from $150K to $1.5K. Built using Universal AI technology.
The world's first AI karaoke hosting system — transforming a $902M market.
A complete AI-powered karaoke hosting solution with a lifelike virtual co-host. Guest app, 400K+ song database, real-time AI interaction, and avatar-driven hosting — built to demonstrate Universal AI's flexibility and disrupting a $902M worldwide KJ market.
Developer Tools & Frameworks
Runtime for orchestrating collaborative AI agent systems.
Born from K's post-doctoral research at the K-Computer — the world's fastest supercomputer (2015) — ARE is a runtime environment for orchestrating and executing collaborative multi-agent AI systems. The conceptual ancestor of today's agentic AI frameworks.
Cross-platform interface framework.
Cross-platform interface framework rivaling Flutter and React.
Get to Know K
K is the founder and CEO of Universal Informatics LLC — Orange County’s foremost authority in agentic AI and advanced computing.
His mission is to be the next Arnold Beckman of Orange County: rebuilding the regional economy through cutting-edge science and technology — not by building a single monolith, but by empowering a vibrant ecosystem of startups and businesses.
K began researching AI agents 18 years before the current age of AI. His doctoral work at the Tokyo Institute of Technology — funded by a prestigious Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship — introduced sociomimetic computing: the study of collaborative societies of intelligent agents. His 2011 thesis is now recognized as remarkably ahead of its time. This research led to his post-doctoral work at the K-Computer (the world’s fastest supercomputer at the time), where he prototyped the Agent Runtime Environment (ARE) — a multi-agent runtime that laid the conceptual groundwork for today’s agent-based AI systems.
At Universal Informatics, K is building Universal AI — a general-purpose platform for rapid development and deployment of multi-domain, multi-channel agentic AI systems — and pursuing a bold long-term vision: a Universal Operating System that replaces traditional apps and GUIs with an Organic Human Interface centered on intelligent agents.
Beyond technology, K is deeply engaged in the nonprofit landscape of Orange County. He is an active member of the Lions Club, the local Art Association, and the La Habra Chamber of Commerce, and collaborates closely with the City of La Habra. He is also the founder of Alma de la Informatica, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting the local economy by empowering small businesses with advanced technology. His work bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world community impact.
What Drives K
Why K? It says it all about me. Minimalist. Efficient. Unapologetically original. Rather than camouflaging behind a common name to blend in, I chose to be my true self — and trust the power of love to make friends and build connections.
My mission is to be the next Arnold Beckman of Orange County. But instead of building a monolith like Beckman Instruments, I will achieve that by building and empowering our vibrant ecosystem of startups.
I moved from Silicon Valley to OC because more thrilling than being hired by Google is to build the next Google — and OC has real potential for it.
Google and Microsoft got the paradigm wrong. AI isn't another app. It's the end of apps and the harmony that replaces fragmentation. While Google puts AI in every app, I put one AI at the center of human experience and those apps behind it.
As a social impact entrepreneur, I always keep two balance sheets: one for profitability and one for social impact. I build ventures that show positive growth in both.
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K helps businesses architect and ship AI solutions — from strategy to production.
- Disruptive AI product strategy — turning bold ideas into shipped products
- Production-grade agentic AI — multi-agent systems that actually do things, not chatbot demos
- AI integration across your stack — CRM, email, calendar, Slack, all talking to each other
- Architecture that scales — grounded in 20 years of research, not 2 years of hype
- Legacy modernization — walking into what's broken and leaving it better
Invite K to Speak
K speaks at conferences, panels, podcasts, and workshops.
- Introduction to Agentic AI for Small Business
- The Singularity and Future of Humanity
- AI, Inside Out – Understand Inner Workings of GenAI in 45 minutes
- The Art of Market Disruption
- Love Always Wins, According to Science — An interdisciplinary scientist's take on love