Emilie Viasnoff graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (Lyon, France) as a physicist specializing in optics and photonics. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of PARIS Sud, France, on optical properties of photonic crystals. From 2005 to 2009, she worked as an R&D project leader at Saint-Gobain. In 2009, she moved tho CEA-LETI and then CEA-DRT, where she spent 12 years in various positions as manager of R&D teams in display technologies, optics, photonics, microelectronics, and microsystems. In 2021, she moved to the Bay Area, where she is now the Head of the Optical Solutions Group within Synopsys, enabling the design and virtual prototyping of first-time-right optical systems. Emilie Viasnoff has published over 15 publications, papers, books, and articles, and holds eight patents.