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Life moments & milestones

Life timeline of Jensen Huang

Taiwanese-American engineer, entrepreneur, and NVIDIA co-founder and CEO.

Family

  1. Born in Taipei, Taiwan

Location

  1. 1968 – 1973

    Childhood in Bangkok, Thailand

  2. Sent to the United States (Tacoma, Washington)

  3. Moved to Beaverton, Oregon

Education

  1. 1973 – 1975

    Studied at Oneida Baptist Institute (Kentucky)

  2. 1975 – 1979

    Attended Aloha High School (Oregon)

  3. 1979 – 1984

    Studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University (B.S.)

  4. Earned M.S. degree from Stanford University

  5. Named OSU Engineering Alumni Fellow

  6. Received honorary doctorate from Oregon State University

Career

  1. 1978 – 1983

    Worked at a Denny's restaurant

  2. 1984 – 1988

    Worked as microchip designer at AMD

  3. 1988 – 1993

    Worked at LSI Logic (graphics chip development)

  4. Co-founded NVIDIA Corporation

  5. NVIDIA initial public offering

  6. Listed in inaugural Edge 50 influencers (2018)

  7. Named best-performing CEO by Harvard Business Review

  8. Received IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award

  9. Named to Time’s 100 Most Influential People

  10. Elected to National Academy of Engineering

  11. Named an A1 honoree by Gold House

  12. Elected Fellow of ITRI (Taiwan)

  13. Ranked No. 2 on Fortune 100 Most Powerful People in Business

  14. Received Edison Award for AI visionary leadership

  15. Awarded VinFuture Prize (Grand Prize)

  16. Keynote address at CES (Las Vegas)

  17. Received Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

  18. Featured in Time Person of the Year issue (Architects of AI)

  19. Named Financial Times Person of the Year

  20. Awarded IEEE Medal of Honor

  21. Appointed to U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Relationships

  1. Met future wife Lori Mills at Oregon State

  2. Married Lori Huang (née Mills)

Work

  1. Co-developed the GX graphics accelerator (1989)

Other life moments

  1. 5 Apr 1993 – present

    NVIDIA leadership era

Community

  1. Founded Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation

  2. Donated $50M to Oregon State University

  3. Foundation matched $22.5M to California College of the Arts

  4. Donated additional $60M to Huang Foundation

  5. Donated $10M to 2026 Nepal–Tibet flood relief

Finance

  1. NVIDIA market cap reaches $3 trillion

  2. Personal net worth reaches ~$190 billion (Forbes)

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