Emilie Viasnoff

Emilie Viasnoff is Head of Synopsys Optical Solutions and is responsible for optical design software, services, and hardware. Prior to joining Synopsys in 2021, she was manager of R&D teams in display technologies, optics, photonics, microelectronics, and microsystems at CEA. From 2005 to 2009, Viasnoff worked as an R&D project leader at Saint-Gobain. She graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France) as a physicist specializing in optics and photonics. Viasnoff holds a Ph.D. from the University of PARIS Sud, France, on optical properties of photonic crystals. She has authored over 20 papers and holds 10 patents.