David Martin is a Senior Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, where he has been on the research staff since 1994. He has worked extensively in the field of agent-based systems, and was one of the principal designers of the Open Agent Architecture (OAA). He was a Principal Investigator for SRI's DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language) project, and serves as chair of the research coalition that developed OWL-S, a service description ontology for the Semantic Web. He was also co-chair of the language subcommittee of The Semantic Web Services Initiative (SWSI).

He has organized several Semantic Web Services workshops, and was a co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's 2005 Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services. He is engaged in several projects that are technologies.