Jensen Huang’s acknowledgment that he was unfaithful to his wife has put a spotlight on a marriage that, until now, had mostly stayed out of the headlines despite spanning more than four decades. Lori Huang has been married to the Nvidia CEO since the mid-1980s, and the couple’s two children, Madison and Spencer, have both gone on to build careers inside the company their father built.
Who Is Lori Huang
Lori Huang, born Lori Mills, met Jensen Huang when they were both engineering students at Oregon State University in the early 1980s. She is a former electrical engineering student who has largely stayed out of the public eye over the course of her husband’s career, even as he became one of the most recognizable CEOs in the world. The two co-founded the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation together, through which the couple has funded major gifts to Oregon State and Stanford University, including tens of millions of dollars toward engineering programs at both schools.
How Jensen Huang Met His Wife
Huang has told the story of how he met Lori on stage several times over the years, including during a speech at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he received an honorary degree. He was just 16 when he started at Oregon State and 17 when he met Lori, who was 19 at the time, in a class of around 250 engineering students that had only three women in it.
By his own account, Huang knew he stood out as the youngest, smallest-looking kid in the room, so he leaned into it. “I was the youngest kid in school, in the class. There were 250 students and three girls,” he has said. “I was the only student that looked like a child, and they were all children.” Figuring Lori would assume he was unusually smart given how young he looked, he walked up to her with a simple opening line: “Do you wanna see my homework?”
From there, he turned it into a standing arrangement. Huang promised Lori that if they did their homework together every Sunday, she’d get straight A’s, effectively turning study sessions into a weekly date that stretched across the entire day. He has said he made sure to finish his own homework in advance so he could look like he was solving it effortlessly when they sat down together. At 20, he went a step further and told her he’d be a CEO by the time he turned 30. “I had no idea what I was talking about,” he has admitted. “And then we got married. That’s all the advice I’m going to give all the entrepreneurs.” Five years after they first met, they got married — and when Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and took over as CEO, he was, in fact, 30 years old.
Madison And Spencer Huang: The Kids Who Joined NVIDIA
Jensen and Lori Huang have two children, Madison and Spencer, and neither initially set out to follow their father into the chip business. Madison studied at the Culinary Institute of America and later trained in pastry and wine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, while Spencer spent years running a bar in Taipei before eventually heading to business school. Both later did a six-week AI course at MIT and pursued MBAs — Madison at London Business School after several years at LVMH, and Spencer at NYU after closing his bar in 2021 — before joining Nvidia as interns, Madison in 2020 and Spencer in 2022.
Today, Madison is a senior director leading simulation marketing at Nvidia and earned more than $1 million in fiscal year 2025, while Spencer works on cloud robotics and simulation technology as a product line manager on the Isaac Sim team, earning around $530,000 in the same period. Their rise prompted some internal and external chatter about nepotism, which Huang has addressed directly and without much apology, arguing that parents generally don’t push unqualified children into roles where they could embarrass the family name, and that some of Nvidia’s “second generation” employees have gone on to outperform their parents.
A Marriage Back In The Spotlight
Huang has often credited his family, and Lori and Madison specifically, with shaping his public image, once joking that he’s “happy” his wife and daughter dress him in the black leather jacket that has become his trademark. The admission of infidelity, laid out in a memo to Nvidia employees as the company’s board opened an independent investigation into whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation, is the most personal disclosure Huang has made about his marriage in a career otherwise defined by keynote speeches and product launches rather than personal revelations.