Madison Huang

At a forum at Seoul National University in April 2026 she recalled that both of her parents are electrical engineers, that in high school she had intended to study electrical engineering, and that her university applications were complete when her father said to her that he did not think she really loved engineering, that she should do what she truly loved, and that he thought this was cooking. She withdrew the applications, applied instead to The Culinary Institute of America and was admitted.⁠[1][2]

The alumna interview published by Le Cordon Bleu London states that she earned a bachelor’s degree in Restaurant Operations and Hospitality Management at “the Culinary Institute of New York”; NOWnews, in an article of June 2024, describes her as a graduate of the New York culinary institute, while its article of May 2026 and Business Weekly’s compiled article of November 2025 name The Culinary Institute of America.⁠[3][4][1][5]

The interview states that after graduating she worked as a chef in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to Paris to study pastry and then to Miami, where she worked at the Mandarin Oriental hotel and afterwards for a chef with two Michelin stars, before moving to London to begin the wine diploma.⁠[3][4]

In March 2015 she completed the six-month Diploma in Wine, Gastronomy and Management at Le Cordon Bleu London. The interview states that she chose the course because she wanted to return to Europe, already held a WSET qualification on which she could build, and could stay within the Le Cordon Bleu network.⁠[3]

In the interview she said that “the course was definitely more intensive than I ever thought it would be.” She named as her greatest achievement the mastery of deductive tasting — identifying a wine’s producer, grape and origin from its colour and smell — which was taught by Master Sommelier Matthieu Longuere, and she added: “This course has taught me everything I need to know.”⁠[3]

FTV News, in an article of August 27, 2025, states that she studied baking and wine at Le Cordon Bleu; Business Weekly’s compiled article states that she majored in baking and winemaking at The Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu; NOWnews’s article of May 2026 states that she went on to study at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and at schools in France, learned pastry-making and wine tasting and became a sommelier. Global Views Monthly’s article of May 30, 2026, lists both chef and sommelier among the jobs she has held.⁠[6][5][1][2]

Her author biography on the NVIDIA blog states that before NVIDIA she led marketing strategy and development in the luxury industry, working for LVMH (which the biography writes as the Louis Vuitton-Moët Hennessy Group).⁠[7][8]

FTV News and Business Weekly state that she spent four years at LVMH; NOWnews’s article of May 2026 describes her as marketing manager of one of LVMH’s Champagne brands. FTV News’s article states that after the four years at LVMH she pursued further studies in AI and data science and then changed careers.⁠[6][5][1]

In 2020 she joined NVIDIA’s marketing department as an intern.⁠[1][5]

The definitive 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 for its annual meeting of stockholders on June 26, 2024 (the notice of meeting is dated May 14, 2024), states in its section on transactions with related persons that the daughter and son of Jensen Huang (named in the filing as Jen-Hsun Huang), the company’s president and chief executive officer and a member of its board, are employed by the company and that neither shares a household with him, is an executive officer or reports directly to him; it gives their total compensation for fiscal 2024, the year that ended on January 28, 2024, as approximately $370,000 and $330,000 respectively. It does not give their names.⁠[9]

NOWnews’s article of June 7, 2024, states that she and 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 had both recently appeared at Computex in Taipei, and describes her as head of product marketing at NVIDIA, responsible for the positioning, marketing strategy and launches of NVIDIA Omniverse.⁠[4]

The caption of a Central News Agency photograph printed with the Liberty Times’s article of the same day states that she and Spencer Huang appeared at Computex on June 5 and visited the booth of a company in NVIDIA’s supply chain; that article likewise describes her as head of product marketing.⁠[10]

Business InsiderBusiness InsiderBusiness Insider is a digital business-news organization.Open the full entry’s article of November 25, 2024, describes her as a director of marketing at NVIDIA.⁠[11]

The definitive proxy statement that NVIDIA filed for its annual meeting of stockholders on June 25, 2025 (the notice of meeting is dated May 13, 2025), makes the same statements about the employment of the two and states that their compensation was determined under NVIDIA’s compensation practices for employees with comparable qualifications and responsibilities, without the involvement of Jensen Huang.⁠[12]

The filing gives the daughter’s total compensation for fiscal 2025 as approximately $1,130,000 and the son’s as approximately $530,000, and states that each has received and remains eligible for equity awards on the same general terms as employees in similar positions who have no such family relationship. It does not give their names.⁠[12]

FTV News’s article of August 27, 2025, states that she often accompanies Jensen Huang to business events and attends dinners with senior TSMCTSMCTSMC is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, that pioneered the pure-play foundry model and manufactures chips for hundreds of customers worldwide.Open the full entry executives, and that she was also busy when Jensen Huang came to Taiwan during Computex in May.⁠[6]

The article gives her title as senior product marketing director for Omniverse and robotics, states that she rose to it from intern over about five years, that she joined NVIDIA before Spencer Huang and that her annual salary was estimated at up to about $1.1 million, and adds that colleagues describe her as having a “vibrant personality” and as a “workaholic,” “often replying to emails within seconds.”⁠[6]

In October 2025 she accompanied Jensen Huang to a meeting in Seoul with Lee Jae-yong, chairman of Samsung Electronics, and Chung Euisun, executive chair of Hyundai Motor Group.⁠[13][5]

Business Weekly’s compiled article of November 4, 2025, states that she planned the fried-chicken gathering that Jensen Huang held with the two men in Seoul on the evening of October 30 and that she had travelled to South Korea a month beforehand to look for opportunities for cooperation for NVIDIA and to inspect the venue. The article relays an account in South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo in which a source in the ruling Democratic Party said that she personally chose Kkanbu Chicken, a fried-chicken chain restaurant in Samseong-dong, Seoul, and gave the gathering the theme name “AI Kkanbu,” to signify a partnership in AI between NVIDIA and South Korean companies.⁠[5]

The article states that she was at her father’s side for most of the itinerary, often walking ahead to guide him, and that it was she who handed over the bottle of Hakushu whisky that Jensen Huang presented to the two executives.⁠[5]

The article adds that on October 31 she joined Jensen Huang’s meeting with Lee Jae-myung, the president of South Korea; the president said he found it hard to believe that she was Jensen Huang’s daughter because she looked so young, and Jensen Huang first said that she was 34 and then said that he had made the number up.⁠[5]

In February 2026 she joined Jensen Huang at a meeting in Silicon Valley with Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group.⁠[13]

On April 28, 2026, she toured the AI robotics cluster at Seoul National University and looked at robots built by students, among them one from the team that had won the previous year’s SNU Robocon, which picks up fish-shaped model parts; she asked how long it had taken to build and remarked that it moved very quickly.⁠[14]

On the same day she spoke at the forum “Leadership in the AI Era: Women’s Voices,” held in the university’s Haedong Advanced Engineering Building. Global Views Monthly’s article states that in the talk she set out her path from her choices in high school to work as a chef, a sommelier and an LVMH marketer and then to NVIDIA.⁠[13][15][2]

The NOWnews article states that she said in the talk that her three core principles at work are the pursuit of perfection, attention to detail and innovation within tradition, which she learned in her jobs as a chef, a sommelier and a marketing manager, and that by keeping to them she could cope with whatever job she might move to in future.⁠[1]

At the forum she also said that she planned to attend GTC Taipei and Computex and that there would be new announcements for the robotics community.⁠[14]

A Yonhap dispatch of the time states that her team oversees NVIDIA Omniverse, a development platform for physical and industrial AI simulation applications, and the company’s robotics platforms.⁠[15]

On April 28 she met Ryu Jae-cheol, chief executive of LG Electronics, at the company’s headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, to discuss integrating LG’s home robot Q9 with NVIDIA’s Isaac robotics platform; on the same day she also met senior officials of Hyundai Motor.⁠[14][15]

On April 29 she visited the Doosan Robotics Innovation Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, and discussed technical cooperation with Kim Min-pyo, the company’s chief executive; Doosan Robotics plans to link the agentic robot operating system it is developing with NVIDIA’s AI, robotics simulation and training infrastructure.⁠[13][15]

The Yonhap dispatch, attributing the information to unnamed industry sources, states that on the same day she met in turn with counterparts from Samsung Electronics and SK hynixSK hynixSK hynix is a South Korean memory semiconductor company headquartered in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, that makes DRAM, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and NAND flash; its shares trade on the Korea Exchange. It began in 1983 as Hyundai Electronics, was later renamed Hynix Semiconductor and joined SK Group in 2012. In the third quarter of 2026 its quarterly revenue exceeded 100 trillion won for the first time.Open the full entry to discuss cooperation in physical AI.⁠[15]

Seoul Economic Daily’s article of April 28 states that she was also expected to visit NAVERNAVERNAVER is a South Korean internet company founded by Lee Hae-jin in 1999. It expanded from Korean-language search and portal services into advertising, commerce, digital content, fintech, cloud computing and AI. Its group incubated LINE in Japan and participated in the integration that produced LY Corporation.Open the full entry and to meet Kim Yu-won, chief executive of Naver Cloud.⁠[14]

The definitive proxy statement that NVIDIA filed for its annual meeting of stockholders on June 24, 2026 (the notice of meeting is dated May 12, 2026), gives the total compensation for fiscal 2026 of Jensen Huang’s daughter as approximately $1,232,000 and of his son as approximately $1,320,000; like the two earlier filings, it states that neither shares a household with him, is an executive officer or reports directly to him, and it does not give their names. Fortune’s article of November 9, 2026, assigns the two figures to her and to Spencer Huang respectively.⁠[16][17]

The caption of a NOWnews photograph dated May 28, 2026, states that, while accompanying her father on a visit to Taiwan, she handed out food and drinks to fans and reporters outside a restaurant. A photo caption in Global Views Monthly’s article of May 30, 2026, states that she and Jensen Huang attended together the dinner that the caption calls, in Chinese, the “trillion-dollar banquet.”⁠[1][2]

In June 2026 she accompanied Jensen Huang on his visit to South Korea; on June 5 she visited the T1 Base Camp in Seoul.⁠[18][19]

In August 2026 she toured the robot-training data factory that LG Electronics was building in Seocho-gu, Seoul, where LG’s home robot CLOiD presented her with a bouquet.⁠[18][20]

Fortune’s article of November 9, 2026, states that she and Nico CaprezNico CaprezNico Caprez is the vice president in charge of global AI infrastructure growth at NVIDIA, a former alpine ski racer who competed for Switzerland, and the husband of Madison Huang, the daughter of Jensen Huang.Open the full entry married in September 2026; Nico Caprez earned an MBA at London Business School in 2021, and it was there that the two met.⁠[17]

The Information’s article states that she celebrated her wedding in HawaiiHawaiiHawaii is a U.S. state consisting of a group of volcanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean; its capital is Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu. Hawaii was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, as the 50th state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 1,455,271.Open the full entry a little over a week before the article appeared, that Nico Caprez is 35 and a former professional ski racer, and that she helped recruit him to NVIDIA two and a half years earlier. Seoul Economic Daily’s article of October 7, 2026, dates that article of The Information to October 5 and states that the wedding was held in Hawaii late in September, that the two were fellow students while Nico Caprez was studying for a master’s degree at London Business School, and that he joined NVIDIA through her introduction.⁠[21][22]

Fortune’s article states that Nico Caprez is a former alpine skier who represented Switzerland, began his career as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, joined NVIDIA as a corporate development manager in February 2024 and has since risen to vice president of global AI infrastructure growth.⁠[17]

Compiled articles in the Liberty Times on October 3, 2026, and in the World Journal on October 5, 2026, state that Lee Jae-yong said in his remarks at The Korea Society’s annual gala in New York on September 28 that she had married two days earlier; the World Journal adds that he congratulated her on the spot. Both articles state that neither Jensen Huang nor NVIDIA had at that time publicly announced the marriage.⁠[23][24]

On September 28, 2026, The Korea Society held its annual gala in New York, at which Jensen Huang received the Van Fleet Award; she attended with her father. Lee Jae-yong said in his remarks that he and Jensen Huang both have daughters named Madison; his daughter, Lee Won-joo, whose English name is also Madison, was present as well, and the two fathers introduced their daughters to each other at the gala.⁠[25][26]

The World Journal’s compiled article relays accounts in South Korean newspapers that she sat beside Lee Won-joo at the dinner and that the name cards in front of them read “Madison Lee” and “Madison Huang.”⁠[24]

The Korea Herald, attributing the information to unnamed industry sources, wrote on October 28, 2026, that she was expected to visit Seoul in November to attend NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026, to be held at COEX in Seoul on November 9–10; she was not scheduled to speak but was expected to join meetings and other events, and no meetings between her and South Korean executives had yet been confirmed.⁠[18]

The paper wrote that this would be her fourth visit to South Korea in 2026, after visits in April, June and August. Under the programme the paper printed, the first day of the event comprised 15 sessions on physical AI, agentic AI and AI infrastructure, and the second day technical workshops and networking for startups, with about 20 partner companies taking part, among them Samsung, SK hynix, LG Electronics and Naver Cloud.⁠[18]

A Yonhap dispatch of November 7, 2026, was carried that day by The Korea Times and The Korea Herald and on November 8 by the Korea JoongAng Daily. Attributing its information to sources whom it does not name, the dispatch states that she had been due to arrive in South Korea on Sunday, November 8, to attend NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026 at COEX in Seoul on November 9–10 and to meet South Korean government officials, and that the trip had been called off.⁠[19][20][27]

During the visit she had been scheduled to discuss cooperation in physical AI with South Korean government officials and businesses, including a meeting with Bae Kyung-hoon, deputy prime minister and minister of science and ICT; a photo session with Kakao Mobility and an evening visit to the headquarters of the AI chip startup Rebellions in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, were also called off.⁠[28]

The Korea JoongAng Daily’s article of November 9, 2026, states that Nvidia Korea cited “family issues” for the cancellation. A Yonhap dispatch of the same day states that at the event’s media session NVIDIA declined to comment on the cancellation of her visit and that a company official, whom the dispatch does not name, said: “It is not related to the event. We cannot answer because she (Madison) did not attend the event.”⁠[28][29]

NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026 opened at COEX in Seoul on Monday, November 9, 2026, for a two-day run; the live-updates page on NVIDIA’s blog states that the event brought together more than 2,000 developers, startups, enterprises and researchers.⁠[29][28][30]

As of November 2026, her author biography on the NVIDIA blog gives her title as senior director of product and technical marketing for physical AI platforms, a role covering NVIDIA’s Omniverse, Cosmos and Isaac platforms (among them Isaac GR00T for humanoid robots); her team is responsible for marketing, go-to-market strategy and developer enablement for NVIDIA’s industrial digitalization and physical AI work.⁠[7]

Her author biography on the NVIDIA developer blog describes her instead as director of product and technical marketing for NVIDIA Omniverse, with responsibility as well for the robotics platforms Isaac and GR00T.⁠[8]

The Korea Herald’s articles of October and November 2026 describe her as senior director of product marketing for Omniverse and robotics; Fortune’s article of November 9, 2026, describes her as a senior director of physical AI and robotics product marketing. Seoul Economic Daily’s article of October 7, 2026, states that she was promoted to senior director of physical AI product marketing in March 2026, whereas FTV News’s article of August 2025 already gives her title as senior product marketing director.⁠[18][20][17][22][6]

Her parents are Jensen Huang and Lori HuangLori HuangLori Huang (née Mills) is the wife of Jensen Huang and the president of the couple’s family foundation, the Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation.Open the full entry, who have two children; the other is her brother, Spencer Huang.⁠[11][17]

In an interview published by the 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 School of Engineering on October 1, 2010, Jensen Huang, speaking of the years in which he studied for his master’s degree while working, said: “Then Spencer showed up, and a year and change later, Madison.”⁠[31]

Seoul Economic Daily’s article of October 7, 2026, describes her as the same age as Nico Caprez, whose age it gives as 35.⁠[22]

Her author biography on the NVIDIA blog states that she holds an MBA in marketing and strategy from London Business School; the articles of June 7, 2024, in NOWnews and the Liberty Times already describe her as holding the school’s MBA.⁠[7][8][4][10]

As of November 2026, her author page on the NVIDIA blog shows 16 articles under her name.⁠[7]

NVIDIA’s Chinese-language blog published an article under her byline on April 25, 2024, on the use of OpenUSD with Siemens Teamcenter X, and another on June 2, 2024, on Foxconn’s use of NVIDIA AI and Omniverse to train robots and streamline assembly.⁠[32][33]

Of the articles listed on the author page, those published in 2025 are “NVIDIA Unveils ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Building Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins” (January 6), “AI Factories, Built Smarter: New Omniverse Blueprint Advances AI Factory Design and Simulation” (March 18), “NVIDIA Expands Omniverse Blueprint for AI Factory Digital Twins With New Ecosystem Integrations, Development Tools” (May 18), “European Robot Makers Adopt NVIDIA Isaac, Omniverse and Halos to Develop Safe, Physical AI-Driven Robot Fleets” (June 11), “Hexagon Taps NVIDIA Robotics and AI Software to Build and Deploy AEON, a New Humanoid” (June 17), “What Is NVIDIA’s Three-Computer Solution for Robotics?” (August 8) and “NVIDIA Partners With AI Infrastructure Ecosystem to Unveil Reference Design for Giga-Scale AI Factories” (September 9).⁠[7]

Those published in 2026 are “Steel, Sensors and Silicon: How Caterpillar Is Bringing Edge AI to the Jobsite” (January 7) and, both on June 7, “NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure” and “NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure.”⁠[7]

Business Insider’s article of November 2024 states that Jensen Huang credits his wife and daughter with his signature style; he said: “I’m happy that my wife and my daughter dresses me.”⁠[11]

Fortune’s article of November 9, 2026, quotes words that Jensen Huang spoke about her and the post of NVIDIA chief executive in an interview with BloombergBloomberg L.P.Bloomberg L.P. is a global financial technology, data and media company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981. It began by providing terminal services that deliver data, analytics and news to financial professionals, and launched Bloomberg News in 1990. Michael Bloomberg has pledged the vast majority of the company’s profits to his philanthropic organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies.Open the full entry, which the article dates to “last month.” He said, “I don’t hope the job on her,” and added that if that is the aspiration of Spencer Huang or of her, “they have to go earn it, and it’s really, really hard work.”⁠[17]

LVMH: Official website: https://www.lvmh.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[34]

NVIDIA: Official website: https://www.nvidia.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[35]