Currently, she is the head of the School of Information Science. Besides teaching and supervising MSc. students, Martha has been and being working as a principal and co-investigator in various research projects (in the area of speech and language processing) funded by international organizations like Google Inc. and national organizations such as The Federal Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MCIT). She also serves as a reviewer for national (ICT Conference) and international (EEE Africon, INTERSPEECH) conferences. She obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Hamburg, Germany. She has also worked as postdoctoral researcher at Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France.