From 1993 until 1999, Felix studied Japanese and Linguistics in Berlin, Nagoya (Japan) and Tokyo. Since 1999 he worked in the Department of Computational Linguistics and Text-technology, at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), where he finished his PhD in 2004. The PhD deals with the integration of heterogeneous linguistic resources using XML-based (e.g. linguistic corpora) and RDF-based (e.g. lexica, conceptual models) representations. Felix Sasaki joined the W3C in 2005 to work in the Internationalization Activity until March 2009. In 2012 he rejoined the W3C team as a fellow on behalf of DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). He was co-chair of the EU sponsored MultilingualWeb-LT (MLW-LT) Working Group and co-editor of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 specification. He successfully coordinated several EU projects: MLW-LT, LIDER and FREME. Since, 2017, Felix is working at Cornelsen, one of the major publishing houses in Germany in the realm of education.
