Seiko is a Founder & Board Director of Synspective and a professor in the Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University.
Prior to Synspective, he worked for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation as a space systems engineer for 15 years.
One of the projects he worked on was the HTV, H-II Transfer Vehicle, from the ground up to the international space station.
His final position in the HTV project was a technical lead at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
He has been an Associate Professor at Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University since 2008, and a Professor since 2017.
His main research topics are Innovative Thinking Methodology and System Development Methodology, especially systems architecture.
From 2015 through 2019, he was a program manager at ImPACT (Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program) led by the Cabinet Office of Japan, and developed a Small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite System for On-Demand Observation.
Seiko received a Master’s Degree in Astronautics from University of Tokyo and a Doctoral Degree in Systems Engineering from Keio university.