Jensen Huang is the co-founder, president, and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. According to NVIDIA’s official biography, he founded the company in 1993 and has served since its inception as president, CEO, and a member of the board of directors. Before NVIDIA he worked at the semiconductor companies LSI Logic and Advanced Micro Devices, and he holds engineering degrees from Oregon State University and Stanford University.
Under Huang, NVIDIA grew from a maker of graphics chips for video games into the dominant supplier of hardware for artificial intelligence. The company’s graphics processing units, programmed through its CUDA software platform introduced in the mid-2000s, turned out to be ideally suited to the massively parallel math of training neural networks. When deep learning took off in the 2010s, NVIDIA GPUs became the default tool for training and running models.
That position made NVIDIA one of the most valuable companies in the world and made Huang a defining figure of the AI era’s hardware side. His long-standing bet that accelerated, GPU-based computing would reshape the industry proved central to how modern AI is built.