Jensen Huang
American businessman
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| February 2025 | Forbes estimates Huang's net worth at US$114.5 billion, ranking him as the 14th wealthiest person in the world. |
| February 2025 | Awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering jointly with Yoshua Bengio, Bill Dally, Geoffrey E. Hinton, John Hopfield, Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li |
| January 2025 | Huang delivered the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, announcing multiple new products and collaborations, including the GeForce RTX 50-series and technologies for self-driving vehicles. |
| 2024 | At Computex 2024 in Taipei, Huang became a major attraction, garnering attention from large crowds of fans and paparazzi during his family's public appearances. |
| 2024 | He was also included in the Time 100 for 2024. |
| 2024 | Jensen Huang was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine again. |
| December 2024 | Huang received the grand prize of the VinFuture Prize alongside Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Fei-Fei Li for their groundbreaking contributions to neural networks and deep learning algorithms. |
| November 2024 | He was awarded the Edison Award for visionary leadership in artificial intelligence and transformative technology. |
| November 2024 | Huang was ranked No. 2 by Fortune magazine on its inaugural list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Business. |
| November 2024 | He received an honorary doctorate from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. |
| September 2024 | He was selected as a Fellow of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). |
| June 2024 | Under Huang's leadership, Nvidia overtook Microsoft to become the 'world's most valuable company' with a market capitalization of $3.34 trillion. |
| June 2024 | Nvidia's market capitalization reached a significant milestone for the first time, contributing to Huang's growing celebrity status, which the media dubbed 'Jensanity' in Taiwan. |
| May 2024 | Huang was recognized as an A1 honoree by Gold House. |
| March 2024 | Mark Zuckerberg posted on Instagram a picture of himself with Huang, humorously comparing Huang's fame in tech to that of Taylor Swift. |
| February 2024 | He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for high-powered graphics processing units, which fueled the artificial intelligence revolution. |
| 2023 | He was included in Time's 100 AI list. |
| December 2023 | Huang was named best CEO of 2023 by The Economist. |
| 2022 | Huang made a philanthropic gift to Oregon State University as part of a larger contribution to establish a cutting-edge supercomputing institute on the university campus. |
| 2021 | Time magazine named Jensen Huang as one of the most influential people in the world. |
| August 2021 | He received the Robert N. Noyce Award from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which is the industry’s highest honor. |
| May 2021 | The bar launched by Spencer Huang in Taipei closed. |
| 2020 | Huang was awarded the IEEE Founders Medal. |
| 2020 | Awarded the IEEE Founders Medal |
| November 2020 | Huang received an honorary doctorate from National Taiwan University. |
| November 2020 | He was named 'Supplier CEO of the year' by Automotive News Europe Eurostars. |
| 2019 | Huang donated $2 million to Oneida Baptist Institute for the construction of Huang Hall, which serves as a dormitory and classroom building for female students. |
| October 2019 | He was named the best-performing CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review. |
| 2018 | Huang was listed in the inaugural Edge 50 as one of the world's top 50 influencers in edge computing. |
| 2017 | Huang and Nvidia gained renewed visibility amidst the growing popularity of GPUs, as noted in a Fortune profile article. |
| 2017 | A Fortune profile article noted that Huang and Nvidia were primarily known within the gaming and computer graphics sectors, indicating limited public recognition at that time. |
| 2017 | A limited liability company reportedly linked to the Huangs acquired a mansion in San Francisco for $38 million. |
| 2015 | Spencer Huang, Jensen Huang's son, launched a bar in Taipei that was later honored as one of the top 50 bars in Asia by Forbes. |
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