Jen-Hsun Huang Born February 17, 1963 (age 57) Tainan, Taiwan Nationality Taiwanese American Other names Jensen Huang Citizenship Republic of China United States Alma mater Oregon State University (BS) Stanford University (MS) National Taiwan University (DS) Occupation Businessman, electrical engineer Net worth US$11.6 billion (September 2020)[1] Title Co-founder, president and CEO, Nvidia Corporation Spouse(s) Lori Huang Children 2 Jensen Huang Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded the graphics-processor company Nvidia in 1993 and has been its president and chief executive officer (CEO) since inception. Huang graduated from Oregon State University before moving to California. He earned a master's degree from Stanford University. Huang was born in the coastal city of Tainan, Taiwan. His family immigrated to the United States and moved to Oneida, Kentucky, and then to Oregon. He graduated from Aloha High School, outside Portland. Huang received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984, and his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992. After college he was a director at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). On his 30th birthday in 1993, Huang co-founded Nvidia and is the CEO and president. He owns a portion of Nvidia's stock worth about US$1.3 billion as of 2016. He earned $24.6 million as CEO in 2007, ranking him as the 61st highest paid U.S. CEO by Forbes. Huang gave his alma mater Stanford University US$30 million to build the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.[9] The building is the second of four that make up Stanford's Science and Engineering Quad. It was designed by Bora Architects of Portland, Oregon and completed in 2010.Huang gave his alma mater Oneida Baptist Institute $2 million to build Huang Hall, a new girls' dormitory and classroom building. While at Oregon State, Huang met his future wife, Lori, his engineering lab partner at the time. Huang has two children.He is said to be an uncle of AMD CEO Lisa Su,[ but this has been dismissed by her.
