Lori Huang

She and Jensen Huang met in the early 1980s as undergraduates at Oregon State University, where both were pursuing degrees in electrical engineering; they were paired as lab partners in an electrical fundamentals class, a first-year engineering course. Her name at the time was Lori Mills.⁠[1][2][3][4][5]

Jensen Huang has said that the highlight of his time at the university was meeting her: “That was the most important, single event of OSU, and of my life.”⁠[2][1]

In a speech at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in November 2024, Jensen Huang recalled that he had entered the university at 16 and was 17 when he met her, and that she was 19 at the time. He said: “I was the youngest kid in school, in the class. There were 250 students and three girls.” He said that he walked up to her and asked, “Do you wanna see my homework?” By his account he promised her that if they did homework together every Sunday she would get straight A’s, and so he had a “date” every Sunday.⁠[4][6]

He called her every weekend to do homework together; after six months of homework he asked her on a date, and she accepted.⁠[5]

He also recalled that at 20, to make sure that the two of them would marry, he vowed to be a CEO by the time he turned 30; he said, “I had no idea what I was talking about,” and added, “And then we got married.”⁠[4]

She graduated from Oregon State University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE); Jensen Huang is of the class of 1984.⁠[2][1][7]

After graduation she and Jensen Huang both found work in Silicon Valley as microchip designers. Jensen Huang said: “She actually made more than me.”⁠[5]

In 2007 she and Jensen Huang founded the philanthropic Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation. It is a private grantmaking foundation registered in Palo Alto, CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry; its Form 990-PF filings are on record from fiscal year 2007, and its tax exemption was issued in October 2008.⁠[8][9][10]

The foundation’s filings list her as its president and Jensen Huang as its secretary and chief financial officer. As of June 2024 the two were its only officers; by its tax filings each worked an average of one hour a week for it, and the foundation had never incurred any compensation costs. The filings for fiscal years 2022 to 2024 likewise list only these two officers, each with compensation of zero.⁠[9][10][1]

On September 10, 2008, Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry announced that Jensen Huang had pledged $30 million for the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center, then under construction and expected to be completed in the first half of 2010; the announcement names him alone as the donor. Oregon State University’s news release of 2022 records the $30 million as a gift from the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation for the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center at Stanford University.⁠[11][2]

On October 5, 2010, Stanford University dedicated the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center. In the words of the School of Engineering’s article on the dedication, Jensen Huang, “together with his wife, Lori,” made the building possible; the university’s president, John HennessyJohn HennessyJohn Hennessy (John L. Hennessy) is a computer scientist who co-founded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications, served as the 10th president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016, shared the 2017 ACM Turing Award and has chaired the board of Alphabet since 2018.Open the full entry, said: “We are grateful to Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang for their vision and vote of confidence in our future.”⁠[12][13]

On the evening of October 14, 2022, the Oregon State University Foundation launched Believe It, the university’s second university-wide fundraising and engagement campaign, and her gift with Jensen Huang of $50 million to that foundation was announced at the launch. The event was held in a 50-foot-tall tent on the Memorial Union Quad and drew more than 500 people.⁠[2][1][7]

The university announced that the gift would go toward a $200 million research and education center, to be called the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex: a three-story building of 150,000 square feet housing an NVIDIANVIDIANVIDIA is an American semiconductor and computing technology company that provides graphics processing units, artificial intelligence infrastructure, networking interconnects, and computing software, and is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NVDA.Open the full entry supercomputer, then expected to open in 2025. The gifts announced to launch the project totaled $100 million.⁠[2][14]

In the release the two said: “We discovered our love for computer science and engineering at OSU.” They said they hoped the gift would help inspire future generations of students also to fall in love with technology, and that “AI is the most transformative technology of our time,” adding that engineering students need access to a supercomputer to accelerate their research.⁠[2][14]

At the launch Jensen Huang called Oregon State University “one of the world’s hidden treasures” and said: “There’s no question in my mind that as Lori and I look back 40 years from now, this will be one of the most important things we have ever done.”⁠[7]

Before this gift, the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation had given $5 million to build a laboratory for cancer research at Oregon State University, and the couple had joined Melinda Gates in supporting AI4ALL, a national nonprofit working to increase diversity and inclusion in AI, and had made major educational grants to Johns Hopkins University and City Year San Jose.⁠[2]

On the morning of April 12, 2024, Oregon State University held the groundbreaking ceremony for the complex at the Kelley Engineering Center Plaza on its Corvallis campus; she and Jensen Huang attended and together addressed the crowd of supporters. Also present were the university’s president, Jayathi Murthy, Governor Tina KotekTina KotekTina Kotek is an American Democratic politician who has been governor of Oregon since January 2023. She previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2007 to 2022, including as speaker from 2013 to 2022, and was re-elected governor in November 2026.Open the full entry, and Jon DeVaan, co-chair of the Believe It campaign.⁠[15][16]

After Tina Kotek introduced the two, they received a standing ovation; Jensen Huang said: “OregonOregonOregon (officially the State of Oregon) is a state on the Pacific coast of the western United States; its capital is Salem and its largest city is Portland. It was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859, as the 33rd state. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 4,237,256.Open the full entry and Oregon State University means a lot to us. This is our home.”⁠[15]

The university foundation’s article on the day of the groundbreaking calls the building the Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex and gives its cost as $213 million and its size as 143,000 square feet, funded by two gifts of $50 million each (one from the couple, one from the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation) and $72 million in state capital bonds approved by the legislature, with the remainder coming from the university.⁠[16]

A frequently-asked-questions page on the complex’s official website states that the building is named after Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, both of whom are Oregon State University graduates, and gives the cost as $200 million. As of November 2026 the website’s current frequently-asked-questions page states that construction is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2026, with a grand opening event in 2027.⁠[17][18]

On February 14, 2025, California College of the Arts in San Francisco announced that it had raised nearly $45 million, including a matching gift of $22.5 million from the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation. Its president, David C. Howse, said that this “would not be possible without the remarkable support from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation,” which, he said, had seen an opportunity both to support the college in a time of need and to challenge others to rise to the moment. The college said the funds would bridge it into the next fiscal year and address its current deficit.⁠[19]

The foundation’s chief operating officer, Eric Jensen, said in a statement that the foundation “recognizes the essential intersection of technology, art, and design in driving innovation,” and that its investment reflected a commitment to supporting institutions that cultivate the creative leaders of tomorrow and that do so in the Bay Area. The $22.5 million was given by her and Jensen Huang through their foundation, which gave away at least $120 million in 2024, double what it gave in 2023, and typically gives most of its money to a donor-advised fund at Charles Schwab CorpThe Charles Schwab CorporationThe Charles Schwab Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in Westlake, Texas, United States, whose stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker SCHW). Through its subsidiaries it operates wealth management, securities brokerage, banking, asset management, and custody businesses, and it was founded by Charles R. Schwab in 1971.Open the full entry.⁠[19][20]

On July 21, 2026, Vanderbilt University announced that it would establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design on its San Francisco campus, made possible, the university said, by a $75 million matching gift from “the Huang family”; the donors are she and Jensen Huang.⁠[21][22]

The university said that, with additional philanthropic support, total investment exceeded $100 million, and that it had secured more than 40 percent of the funds needed to realize the full match by December 31, 2028. The college’s programs remain subject to review by Vanderbilt University faculty advisory committees and to the necessary regulatory approvals. The new college will build on the nearly 120-year legacy of California College of the Arts, and the university will establish within it the California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt University.⁠[21]

In the announcement Jensen Huang said: “Technology expands what we can build. Art and design determine why we build it.” California College of the Arts will graduate its final class in 2027; the $75 million is Jensen Huang’s largest gift to a university to date.⁠[21][22]

On November 8, 2026, NVIDIA published in its newsroom, under the title “A Message to Our Company,” an email that Jensen Huang had sent to the company’s employees earlier that day. In it he wrote, “I was unfaithful to my wife,” and asked for privacy for his family: “Please give them privacy.”⁠[23]

On when the two married, a 2022 letter by Scott A. Ashford, dean of Oregon State University’s College of Engineering, says it was a few years after they met; articles in Fortune and Business InsiderBusiness InsiderBusiness Insider is a digital business-news organization.Open the full entry in November 2024 both give it as five years after they met and attribute that to Oregon State University. Speaking in October 2010 of the period when he worked full-time while studying for a master’s degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University, Jensen Huang said: “Lori and I were married by then.”⁠[3][4][6][24]

The two married, and within a few years she had left the workforce to bring up their children.⁠[5]

The couple have two children, a son, Spencer HuangSpencer HuangSpencer Huang is director of product for robotics at NVIDIA, where he leads product work on the company’s robotics software, and is the son of Jensen Huang; before joining NVIDIA he co-founded the cocktail bar R&D Cocktail Lab in Taipei.Open the full entry, and a daughter, Madison HuangMadison HuangMadison Huang is the senior director responsible for product and technical marketing of physical AI platforms at NVIDIA and the daughter of Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s chief executive; she trained in cooking and wine, worked as a chef and then in marketing at LVMH before joining NVIDIA.Open the full entry. In the same interview Jensen Huang said: “Then Spencer showed up, and a year and change later, Madison.” Once the children came along, he said, the number of classes he could take dwindled further, and the master’s degree took him eight years to finish. NVIDIA’s proxy statement of 2026 states that the daughter and the son of Jensen Huang are both employed by the company.⁠[2][24][6][25][26][27]

Her name appears in different forms in different documents: NVIDIA’s proxy statement of 2022 gives it as Lori Lynn Huang in the name of a trust; a thank-you page of the Oregon State University Foundation printed on November 17, 2022, gives it as Lori L. Huang, and the filing record of the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation as Lori L Huang; and Oregon State University writes Lori Mills Huang in the official name of the building.⁠[28][3][10][29]

The proxy statement that NVIDIA filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is the federal securities regulator of the United States. Created during the Great Depression by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and led by five commissioners, it has a three-part mission of protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation.Open the full entry in 2022 sets out the shares beneficially owned by Jensen Huang as of March 21, 2022. Its footnote states that she and Jensen Huang are co-trustees of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Living Trust (under an agreement dated May 1, 1995), which held 61,347,714 NVIDIA shares and is the general partner of J. and L. Huang Investments, L.P., which held 4,948,956 shares.⁠[28]

The same footnote states that the two are also co-trustees of The Huang 2012 Irrevocable Trust (2,228,000 shares) and The Huang Irrevocable Remainder Trust (5,007,800 shares); that she is trustee of The Lori Lynn Huang 2016 Annuity Trust II, which held 2,969,050 shares; and that Jensen Huang is trustee of The Jen-Hsun Huang 2016 Annuity Trust II, which held the same number. By virtue of their status as co-trustees, the footnote says, each of them may be deemed to share beneficial ownership of the shares held by the three trusts of which they are co-trustees.⁠[28]

NVIDIA’s proxy statement of 2026 sets out share ownership as of March 23, 2026. Its footnote states that she and Jensen Huang are co-trustees of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Living Trust, which held 528,531,547 NVIDIA shares and is the sole member of TARG M LLC and TARG S LLC (6,632,667 shares each) and of TARG M2 LLC and TARG S2 LLC (30,000,000 shares each); the two are also co-trustees of The Huang 2012 Irrevocable Trust (31,421,011 shares) and The Huang Irrevocable Remainder Trust (109,040,602 shares). By virtue of their status as co-trustees, the footnote says, each of them may be deemed to share beneficial ownership of the shares held by all of these. This footnote does not list J. and L. Huang Investments, L.P. or the two 2016 Annuity Trust II trusts.⁠[27]

By the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings, its total assets at year end were $23,871,739 for fiscal year 2014, $379,998,023 for fiscal year 2019, $1,011,788,263 for fiscal year 2022, $3,413,872,472 for fiscal year 2023 and $9,212,451,171 for fiscal year 2024.⁠[10]

The same filings show charitable disbursements of $66,372,776 for fiscal year 2022, $59,759,587 for fiscal year 2023 and $126,336,116 for fiscal year 2024; contributions received in those three fiscal years were $122,372,313, $57,733,100 and $159,686,325 respectively, and total revenue for fiscal year 2024 was $5,930,032,620.⁠[10]

By the end of 2022 the couple had built up 69 million NVIDIA shares in the foundation; in June 2024 John Seitz, founder of FoundationMark, a firm that tracks the investment performance of foundations, put the value of the stake at more than $8 billion, and the foundation then ranked among the 20 largest private foundations in the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry.⁠[9]

From its creation in 2007 through 2022 the foundation donated or pledged about $65 million to outside nonprofits, primarily Stanford University and Oregon State University, and gave about $125 million, mostly in NVIDIA shares, to the GeForce Fund, a donor-advised fund account that the couple set up at the Schwab Charitable Fund. Private foundations must distribute at least 5 percent of their assets each year; the foundation has met this requirement mainly through its gifts to that account, and donor-advised funds are not subject to the same annual distribution rule.⁠[9]

In a statement in June 2024, a spokesperson for the couple said that the foundation supports higher education, public health and STEM initiatives across the United States, alongside local community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.⁠[9]

NVIDIA’s proxy statement of 2026 states that as of March 23, 2026, the foundation held 58,683,830 NVIDIA shares, that she and Jensen Huang are members of its board, and that the two have no pecuniary interest in the shares the foundation holds.⁠[27]

She and Jensen Huang are benefactors to numerous organizations, including the Stanford University School of Engineering.⁠[30]

Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex: Official website: https://huangcomplex.oregonstate.edu/ (opens in a new window).⁠[29]