Stéphane Coulombe (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, in 1991, and a Ph.D. degree in telecommunications (image processing) from INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, in 1996.

From 1997 to 1999, he was with the Nortel Wireless Network Group, Montreal. From 1999 to 2004, he worked as a Research Engineer at the Nokia Research Center, Dallas, TX, USA, and as a Program Manager at the Audiovisual Systems Laboratory.

He joined the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS is a constituent of the Université du Québec network) in 2004, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Software and IT Engineering. His research interests encompass video processing, compression, communication (transport) and systems with a recent focus on immersive video and machine learning for video applications. From 2009 to 2018, he held the Vantrix Industrial Research Chair in Video Optimization.