Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, photographed at her company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, ... My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there.

Su is one of few Fortune 500 CEOs with a PHD. Born in Taiwan, Su moved with her family to the U.S. at just 3 years old so her father, a mathematician, could attend graduate school.

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of the Society for Science and Publisher of Science News, chatted with Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a ...