Who is Lori Huang, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huangs wife and college sweetheart?

Lori Huang, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s wife of more than 40 years, has led a relatively private life – but she’s been thrust into the spotlight after her husband admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. The pair first met in a freshmen electrical engineering class at Oregon State University, where they were lab partners, according to the school’s website.Jensen was just 17 and “the youngest kid in school.

There were 250 students and three girls,” he said in a 2024 interview. Jensen said he’d hoped that when he approached a 19-year-old Lori Mills, she would assume he was smart because he was so young to be in college. “I walked up to her and I said, ‘Do you want to see my homework?’” Jensen recalled.“‘If you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you, you will get straight As.’”Jensen said that’s how he made sure he had a date with Lori every Sunday – and to further woo her, he promised that he’d be a CEO by the time he was 30. He graduated from OSU in 1984 and worked at chip companies LSI Logic and Advanced Micro Devices before earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1992.

A year later, he co-founded Nvidia when he was 30 years old – following through on his promise. Lori graduated from OSU in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. The couple – who married five years after they met – have two children, Madison and Spencer.Both of them work at Nvidia.

Madison is a senior director of product marketing and Spencer is a director of product management in robotics.Nico Caprez, Madison’s husband, also works at Nvidia as vice president of global AI infrastructure growth.Jensen has praised his wife for being by his side throughout his career.

Most recently, they were pictured together at a White House state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in September. “Lori’s been with me for a long time, our whole life,” Jensen told CNA, a Singapore-b...