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Jensen Huang
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company. As of 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.
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business · Taiwanese and American businessman (born 1963) · entrepreneur · engineer · businessperson · computer scientist · tech VIP · electrical engineer · manager · founder · chief executive officer · also Jensen Huang, Jen-hsun Jensen Huang, Huang Renxun, Huang Jen-hsun, Jen-hsun Huang, Huang
Born 17 February 1963 · Q305177
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2026· 11 entries
24/7 Wall St.: Elon Musk and Jensen Huang’s New Partnership Could Create the Next Era of Technology
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24/7 Wall St.: The 4 Words From Jensen Huang That Could Redefine NVIDIA’s Total Addressable Market
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Yahoo Finance: Jensen Huang Says A100 GPUs Can Last Nearly a Decade
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Public attention spiked: 14,929 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 4,481, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: False Positive. Undid revision 1357924807 by ClueBot NG (talk)
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Public attention spiked: 16,873 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 4,481, with 10 article edits. Editors noted: Fixed citations to Kim and removed the "full citations needed" template
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Public attention spiked: 19,100 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 4,481, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Reverted good faith edits by Guyrichtheman (talk): Unexplained changed
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Snopes rated the claim “An image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raising their fists in front of the Chinese Communist Party flag.” Fake.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Real photo shows Trump, Musk, Tim Cook, Larry Fink and Jensen Huang eating Panda Express take-out on Air Force One during their flight to China.” AI Image.
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Huang was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) by President Donald Trump
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2025· 4 entries
Awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025).
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Was named as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year
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Reported net worth: $151B (as of 2025).
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2024).
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And was projected to distribute $369 million in 2025
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2023· 1 entry
“Your organization should be the architecture of the machinery of building the product.”
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2021).
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And 2024, Time magazine included Huang in their list of the most influential people
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2020· 4 entries
Won IEEE Founders Medal (2020).
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Published “A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin” in Nature — cited 17,378 times.
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Published “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” in The Lancet — cited 36,648 times.
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Published “A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 22,158 times.
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2017· 3 entries
Published “Densely Connected Convolutional Networks” in 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) — cited 33,879 times.
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A Fortune profile article acknowledged: "If you haven't heard of Nvidia, you can be forgiven
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A limited liability company reportedly linked to the Huangs acquired a mansion in San Francisco for $38 million
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2015· 3 entries
Published “ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge” in International Journal of Computer Vision — cited 30,604 times.
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That was honored as one of the top 50 bars in Asia by Forbes
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources” in Nature Protocols — cited 31,759 times.
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2007· 2 entries
And donated $330 million of Nvidia shares
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Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, established the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation in 2007 and donated $330 million of Nvidia shares.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 44,418 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Moved to a larger house in Los Altos Hills, California, and they acquired a second home in Wailea, Hawaii the following year
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2002· 2 entries
“more vividly than just about any other”
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Huang said he remembered his life in Kentucky "more vividly than just about any other"
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis” in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences — cited 19,853 times.
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1993· 4 entries
Huang personally signed Nvidia's original articles of incorporation into effect
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From a Denny's restaurant in San Jose, California, at age 30 and has remained its president and CEO ever since
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Had "no idea how" to start a company, "building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder" than they expected, and they probably would not have done it if they had realized up front "the pain and suffering [i
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And have collaborated on products, with the latter utilizing Nvidia AI chips in its servers
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1992· 1 entry
At a Denny's roadside diner in East San Jose to formulate a business plan
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1989· 1 entry
Huang, Malachowsky, and Priem finalized the accelerator, which they called the "GX graphics engine"
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1987· 1 entry
To $656 million in 1990, and Huang was promoted to be the director of LSI's CoreWare, a division that manufactured chips for hardware vendors
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1984· 3 entries
Huang, who grew up speaking Taiwanese Hokkien, began learning Mandarin Chinese in order to communicate with Chinese photomask workers employed at the company
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With a bachelor's degree with highest honors
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Studied at Oregon State University (1984).
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1977· 1 entry
The school purchased an Apple II computer
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1973· 1 entry
To live with an uncle in Tacoma, Washington, escaping widespread social unrest in Thailand
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1963· 3 entries
And moved to the southern city of Tainan as a child
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Born 1963-02-17.
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“in Financial Post (30 May 2023) You could learn the language of almost anything. Once you learn the language, you can apply the language - and the application of language is generation.”
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