Masahiko Miyaki

Masahiko Miyaki is executive vice president of DENSO Corporation in Kariya, Aichi, Japan. He oversees DENSO’s overall Production and Safety & Environmental, Quality Center.

Miyaki graduated from the University of Tokyo’s School of Engineering in 1977. That same year, he joined DENSO Corporation (formerly Nippondenso Co., Ltd.) where he worked in the Electronic Fuel Injection Engineering Division 2 developing gasoline and diesel injection systems. While in that division, he helped develop the electronically controlled diesel injection systems ECD-V3, V4 and common rail system U2.

In January 2000, Miyaki was promoted to general manager of the Diesel Injection Engineering Division. There, his work focused on diesel injection component development.

In 2004, he was promoted to director of the Diesel Injection Engineering Division. His main responsibilities included the development and promotion of diesel injection systems.

During his tenure with DENSO, Miyaki has written several technical papers for the Society of Automotive Engineers in America and Japan, as well as The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). In 1991, Miyaki delivered a lecture on the world’s first diesel common rail system to the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Miyaki was named director of the Fuel Injection Business Unit and one of DENSO’s executive directors in June 2004. He was promoted to senior executive director in June 2010. Miyaki served as vice president of JSME in 2012. Because of his contribution to the technical development of common rail systems for diesel engines and contribution to the popularization of clean diesel vehicles, Miyaki became the first at DENSO to win the JSME Medal for Distinguished Engineers in 2012. Miyaki was promoted to executive vice president in June 2013.