**Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang** (born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-American [[🔎 Entrepreneurship|entrepreneur]], electrical engineer, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder, president, and chief executive officer of [[🏦 Nvidia ($NVDA)|Nvidia]] Corporation, the world’s largest [[semiconductor]] company. As of February 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US $114.5 billion, ranking him among the top 15 wealthiest individuals globally. A child of Taiwanese immigrants, Huang spent his early years in [[Taiwan]] and Thailand before emigrating to the United States, where he attended school in Kentucky and Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a Master of Science from [[🏫 Stanford|Stanford University]]. After graduation, Huang worked as a microprocessor designer at AMD and later as director of the CoreWare division at LSI Logic. In 1993, at age 30, he co-founded NVIDIA over a meal at a local Denny’s, and has served as its president and CEO ever since. He guided the company through early financial challenges, pivoting it from gaming graphics to high-performance computing and [[🔎 Artificial Intelligence (AI)|artificial intelligence]]. Under Huang’s leadership, NVIDIA has experienced explosive growth during the AI revolution, briefly surpassing a market capitalization of US $3 trillion in mid-2024—overtaking giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta—and has been twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people (2021, 2024). Huang is married to Lori Mills Huang, with whom he has two children, and is a cousin of [[AMD]] CEO [[Lisa Su]].