AEPONYX inc.
Amelie Lachapelle is a highly skilled professional with extensive experience in hardware design, microfabrication, and engineering. Currently serving as a Hardware Designer at AEPONYX inc. since March 2020, Amelie previously held positions as a Lecturer at Polytechnique Montréal, where instruction focused on Solid State Electronic Devices. Prior experience includes engineering support at ELI-NP, where assistance was provided during experiments and data analysis, and as a Visual System Engineer at CAE, where project management and design optimization were key responsibilities. Amelie also contributed as a researcher at Institut national de la recherche scientifique, specializing in data acquisition automation and experimental methodology development. Educational credentials include a Master’s degree in Physics from Université du Québec - Institut national de la recherche scientifique and ongoing MBA studies at Université Laval.
AEPONYX inc.
AEPONYX is a fabless micro optical switch semiconductor chips designer and manufacturer. AEPONYX chips are targeted at fiber optic access to the Cloud and optical switching in the Cloud.With its patented and patent pending technologies, combining planar Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) and Silicon Photonics, AEPONYX is building thefastest, most affordable and smallest micro optical switches for use in disaggregated switching systems and enabling tunability in both transmission & reception in pluggable transceivers.This creates opportunities for optical circuit switching and a new generation of tunable transceivers, increasing the capacity on both ends of the optical fiber while lowering power consumption.By combining Silicon Photonics with MEMS, AEPONYX is creating a unique platform that can support the next generation of optical communications.