Question 1

True or false: Lisa Su holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT.

Accepted Answer

True. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT in 1994, focusing on semiconductor device physics.

Question 2

True or false: Lisa Su was the first woman to win the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award.

Accepted Answer

True. She won the medal in 2021 for contributions to semiconductor technology, becoming its first female recipient.

Question 3

True or false: Lisa Su became CEO of AMD in 2014, making Lisa Su the youngest CEO in the company’s history.

Accepted Answer

False. Lisa Su was 44 when she became CEO. AMD's first CEO, Jerry Sanders, was only 33 in 1969, so he was younger.

Question 4

True or false: Lisa Su co-designed the original PlayStation 3's Cell processor.

Accepted Answer

True. While at IBM, Su contributed to the Cell processor project, which later powered Sony’s PlayStation 3.

Question 5

True or false: Lisa Su once worked for Apple before joining AMD.

Accepted Answer

False. Lisa Su's career includes Texas Instruments, IBM, Freescale, and AMD, but not Apple.

Question 6

True or false: Lisa Su’s first job out of college was as a cashier at McDonald’s.

Accepted Answer

False. Su started her career at Texas Instruments and later IBM; there is no record of her working at McDonald’s.

Question 7

True or false: Lisa Su has a PhD in electrical engineering from MIT.

Accepted Answer

True. Lisa Su earned her PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.

Question 8

True or false: Lisa Su’s father was a famous mathematician who taught at Harvard.

Accepted Answer

False. Her father was a data scientist and her mother an accountant; neither taught at Harvard.

Lisa Su Trivia Questions