Kirk Martinez is a Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton UK.

Recent research led to a new imaging system for ancient seals together with Oxford University - which is helping to capture and read historic texts.

He helped to found the Earth and Space Science Informatics focus group of the American Geophysical Union, is was on the executive committee and has run ten annual sessions on applying sensor networks to earth science.

He is the co-founder of the VIPS (software) image processing package together with John Cupitt (while at the National Gallery London).

In 2014 he deployed what was probably the first low power, sub-GHz, 6LoWPAN fully-IP based Internet of Things environmental sensor network in the Cairngorms.