Who we are
Apex AI Institute Inc. is a domestic not-for-profit corporation organized under the New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
Our founding directors — Dr. Lun-Hsiang Yuan and J. Michael Hwang — serve without compensation. They combine urologic oncology, robotic surgery, clinical-AI systems, corporate finance, and organizational governance backgrounds.
Governance highlights
- Directors serve without compensation during the initial year.
- A written Conflict-of-Interest policy governs any transaction involving a director or a director's immediate family, requiring disclosure, recusal, and documentation in the board minutes.
- All educational materials and research outputs are released under open licenses without paywall.
How we work
Our current focus is two charitable pillars: accelerated drug development research (Program A) and community-accessible medical AI education (Programs C & D). Other aspirational directions remain future work; see our mission for the full picture.
We operate as a charitable incubator: public-benefit research stays within AAI, and if a project matures into something with commercial potential, it may be spun out into a separately organized for-profit entity. Any such transition will be approved by the board on fair-market-value terms and fully documented.