Michael F. Korpi is Professor and Director of the Film & Digital Media Division at Baylor University, a Senior Research Fellow at the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and a member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. He has produced and directed documentaries on a range of topics from automobile racing to world hunger. Dr. Korpi also conducts research dealing with new communication technologies such as high definition television, nonlinear editing systems, digital cinema, video games, and media networking. For example, he produced test materials for the HDTV standardization process (including the first side-by-side tests of Super 16mm vs. 35mm film transferred to HDTV), and for Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) device certification.

Dr. Korpi attended Liberty University and the University of Iowa. He has been at Baylor University since 1982. He and his wife Deborah have three children: Joel, age twenty-three, Faith, age twenty-one, and Zachary, age fifteen.  Dr. Korpi recently sold the Formula 500 race car he drove in Sports Car Club of America events. A Mitsubishi Evolution IX MR with "Dr. Evo" plates is some compensation for this loss.

Some racing pictures here.
Some Evo pictures here.

 
(2007)

(2005)

Michael & Deborah Korpi (2004)

Zachary, Joel, and Faith (2004)

(2001)

-- from the HDTV documentary
   "A Most Significant Journey" (2000)