Kirk Martinez
Professor at Professor in Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKirk Martinez is a Professor of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton with 17+ years of experience in academia and a career spanning sensor networks, IoT, and advanced imaging. He led large EU-funded art imaging projects at Birkbeck that produced widely adopted tools (e.g., work leading to IIPImage and VIPS) and co-founded an MA program and the EVA conference series. His research blends field-hardened glacial sensor deployments and wireless environmental monitoring with image processing techniques, supported by funders from EPSRC and NERC to National Geographic and Formula E. He has served as a science advisor for AGU’s EOS, helped shape EGU’s ESSI programme, and was honored with the AGU Leptoukh Lecture award. A practical technologist and interdisciplinary collaborator, he translates museum-grade imaging methods into environmental sensing systems. Based in Southampton, he continues to bridge arts, earth science and distributed sensing through research, consultancy and international project leadership.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electronic Systems Engineering, PhD, Electronic Systems Engineering at University of Essex
Spanish
Github Skills (71)
image-processing10
apng10
bmp10
webp10
internet10
svg10
heic10
cpp10
libvips10
software-update10
graphicsmagick10
openslide10
nifti10
pdfium10
low-memory10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rti-capture/rtiduino-code
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 6 months
kmartinez/circuitpython
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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