# Short CV

Assistant Professor,　Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/ College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo
After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, I joined Igarashi User Interface research group (https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/igarashi/en/) and worked as a post-doc researcher for about 4 years (2012-2015).
During that period, I visited the University of Bath (UK, hosted by Chris J. K. Williams) for two months and ETH Zurich (Switzerland, hosted by Philippe Block) for one month. There, I started researching Airy's stress function-based form-finding. In 2015, I made a paper about Airy's stress function-based form-finding accepted to Siggraph 2015.
From 2015 to 2020, I worked for Skidmore Owings and Merrill (Chicago, US) as an architect for 4.5 years and developed parametric modeling skills. Since 2020, I have been back in Japan and in my present position until now. In 2022, I made one more paper about Airy's stress function-based form-finding accepted to Siggraph Asia 2022.
I'm a researcher/scientist/engineer/architect trying to bridge the gaps between different professions. Recently I started teaching Graphic Statics to students from the school of architecture.

### Contact

masaaki[at]mmiki.jp

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# Project KingOfMonsters

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##### Visit KingOfMonsters

KingOfMonsters is a project where we develop a series of custom Grasshopper components that support Airy's stress function-based form-finding of shell structures.
The method can handle a mix of tension-compression stress state that is normally considered challenging because of the hyperbolic nature of the equilibrium equation.

-Tension-compression mixed umbrella shell inspired by Amancio Williams' works.

-Here is an animation showing how the method works.

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### Proceedings in English, peer-reviewed

• S. Parascho, I.X. Han, A. Beghini, M. Miki, S. Walker, E.P. Bruun, and S. Adriaenssens, LightVault: a design and robotic fabrication method for complex masonry structures. Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2021.

### Proceedings in English, without Review

##### Proceedings of IASS
• M. Miki, T. Mitchell, and W. Baker, Continuum Form and Force Diagrams in NURBS-Based Shell Form-Finding, Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, 2019
• C. Hartz, A. Mazurek, M. Miki, T. Zegard, T. Mitchell, and W. Baker, The application of 2D and 3D graphic statics in design. Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia, 2017
##### ICGG
• S. Nishimoto, F. Ono, M. Miki, K. Domyo, T. Tachi, Branching and Merging of Kumihimo Braiding, International Conference on Geometry and Graphics, 2022, Sao Paulo (Brazil)

### Research grants

Nohmura foundation research grant (2022-2023).

### Awards

• Hangai Prize / IASS, 2010
• Tsuobi Prize / IASS, 2017
• 東京大学大学院工学系研究科長賞、 2009年3月

# Graphic Statics code samples

The NURBS-based methods showcased below are too academic and have too many parameters.
Some simple discrete Graphic Statics based codes can be accessed from here.

### Bridge (3D Graphic Statics)

(left: 3D form diagram, right: 3D force diagram)

# Projects

### Radon (code written in pure C# is provided)

A NURBS-based finite element shell analysis (isogeometric analysis) tool.

### Minilla (code written in pure C# is provided)

A NURBS-based sensitivity analysis tool.
It optimizes the shape by looking at the 'sensitivity' of the linear stiffness matrix.

### King Ghidorah (code written in pure C# is provided)

A novel NURBS-based form-finding method for tension-compression mixed type shells.
This is a continuation of Mothra, but is more accessible and reproducible by many.

### Mothra

A NURBS-based form-finding method for compression-only shells. This work was presented at SIGGRAPH 2015.
Piecewise smooth Airy stress functions are computed using a second-order conic optimization solver and used to calculate stress tensors.

### Sprout

To make curves and surfaces 3d-printable

### geodesicFractal

A simple algorithm to generate geodesics and its application to architectural design

### Ricecooker (Suspended)

A set of custom components of Grasshopper that supports computational mechanics.

### Tensors, static Mechanics, and differential geometry (Japanese only but slowly translated to English.)

Remind that there are two types of multiplications between vectors; row vector $\times$ column vector = scalar, and column vector $\times$ row vector = matrix.
The former is called inner product. The latter is called…, there is no name.
The good start point of learning tensors is to find out the name of this product.

### Portfolio

##### Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/user12601176/videos
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