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. 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. Lisa Su has completely turned around a company that was bleeding talent and dollars, reversing its 2$ per share lows from AMD's 2014 up to today's $110 per share. The award, attributed by the IEEE and funded by Intel, was awarded to Lisa Su in recognition of her 'leadership in groundbreaking semiconductor products and successful business strategies that contributed to the strength of the microelectronics industry.' Her current and past actions at AMD have pulled most of the weight behind this recognition, as Dr. Lisa Su last Friday joined an exclusive list of personalities whose contributions to he semiconductor industry have been deemed relevant enough to receive the prestigious Robert N.