Hikari Murayama

Hikari Murayama

Japan

Hikari Murayama is a PhD Candidate at the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research combines remote sensing and machine learning to understand the carbon budget. This work spans both past and present: she is quantifying land cover changes in Africa using historical, aerial photos and using modern-day satellites to study emissions from power plants. As an interdisciplinary researcher, Hikari was a Fellow at the University of Washington eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good Program in 2020 and a Data Science Fellow at the D-Lab from 2020 to 2022. She's currently conducting research as a Doctoral Fellow at the Global Policy Lab. Before ERG, Hikari was a consultant at Bates White Economic Consulting before transitioning to lead remote sensing projects at NASA DEVELOP where she worked with conservation groups in Costa Rica. She holds a B.A. in Chemical Physics from Wellesley College.