Hadi Amirpour is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information Technology at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science, holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and has two Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher with the ATHENA project, funded by the Christian Doppler Laboratory in collaboration with its industry partner Bitmovin. He was also involved in EmergIMG, a Portuguese consortium focused on emerging imaging technologies, funded by the Portuguese funding agency and the EU Horizon 2020 program.

His research interests include video streaming, image and video compression, quality of experience, emerging 3D imaging technologies, and medical image analysis. He has contributed to standardization committees such as JPEG Pleno and MPEG and has been co-chairing Qualinet TF7 since 2021. Additionally, he serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE TCSVT. He has received the Best Paper Awards from PCS 2024 and NAB 2025.

He has also played an active role in organizing conferences, special sessions, workshops, and tutorials at leading international events, including IEEE ICME 2025, IEEE QoMEX 2025, ACM MM 2025, VQEG 2024, IEEE ICME 2023, ACM MM 2022, IEEE EUVIP 2022, and ACM MobiSys 2022.