Lisa Su, PDG d'AMD, première femme à recevoir l'IEEE Robert N. Médaille Noyce pour l'excellence des semi-conducteurs
Lisa Su divides her carrier in two parts: the first ten to 15 years where she moved and produced as an MIT-trained electrical engineer, where she earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees on the subject. The move towards management of research and technological teams actually happened during her stint in IBM; after 11 years at the company, in 2006 she was appointed vice president of IBM’s semiconductor research and development center in New York. She then moved on to AMD as senior vice president in charge of the company’s global business units, where she was so impressively skilled it only took her two years to become President and CEO of AMD. Her nomination for the Robert N. Noyce Medal paints her as the first woman to have ever received it. En 1993, MIT female graduates where 32% of the total; in 2016, that number increased to 50%.
“Pour être honnête, I would have never imagined that I would receive the Noyce award,” Lisa Su, who is an IEEE Fellow, says. “It’s an honor of a lifetime. To have that recognition from my peers in the technical community is a humbling experience. But I love what I do and being able to contribute to the semiconductor industry.”