Miki is an innovation strategist specialized in humanity-centered systems approach. Miki is passionate about empowering people and enabling technology that has a positive impact on humanity’s future both on and off the Earth.
She is currently a seasonal lecturer at the Stanford d.school, teaching Planetary Citizenship (Spring 2022) and How to Shoot for the Moon (Spring 2023). Previously, Miki served as a Commercial Innovation Manager at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the manager of the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. She worked with NASA, startups, Fortune 500 companies, and academic and research institutions to advocate for leveraging humanity’s only crewed orbiting laboratory to advance science and technology research and development for the benefit of life on Earth and shape a future of our economy off Earth.
Her portfolio spans a wide range of research areas, including aerospace technology development, agriculture and plant biology, synthetic biology, and sustainability-focused studies.
Miki received a BA in physics with an astrophysics minor emphasis from the University of California, Berkeley; an MS in aerospace engineering from San Jose State University; and a Ph.D. in bioengineering (focused on medical imaging and osteoporosis) through a joint program from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco.
