Martin joined the W3C team at Keio-SFC in December 1997 to work on Internationalization. He is currently a Visiting Scientist at MIT/LCS. Prior to joining W3C, he was at the University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science, and has been an active particpant within the HTML and CSS Working Groups as an invited expert on internationalization.

Martin obtained his masters degree from the University of Zurich in computer science, business administration, and Japanese studies. He has a Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in computer science with a thesis on compression and progressive transmission of images.