Jen-Hsung Huang Engineering Center - Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

About the Place:
The Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center is intended to serve as a hub for the School’s teaching and research endeavors shifting the center of the school from Terman Engineering Center to the SEQ 2. With the largest dispensation of regional assets and special function space in the SEQ 2, the center is intended to draw faculty, staff, students and visitors into the new quad. The center is the home to the Science and Engineering library, state of the art distance education and professional education classrooms, student organization and meeting spaces and the SEQ 2 café. Additionally, the facility houses the School of Engineering Dean’s office, the Department of Management Science and Engineering, and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. ~source

About the Person:

Jen-Hsun Huang has always followed his heart.

Born in Taipei, Huang moved at age 6 with his family to Bangkok and came to the United States at age 10. His parents, Sidney and Maria, wanted him to have the opportunities that America afforded. He developed an early passion for table tennis, becoming a nationally ranked junior player. In high school, he joined the computer club and discovered the magic of computers while playing games. His fascination led him to study computer science and chip design while an undergraduate at Oregon State University. He moved to Silicon Valley after graduation and worked at AMD and then LSI Logic. While pursuing his career and raising two young children, he enrolled part-time in Stanford’s graduate engineering program, where he found inspiration, particularly in the lectures of Professor (and future Stanford President) John Hennessy.

At Stanford, said Jen-Hsun, “I fell in love with computer design.”

Shortly after receiving his master’s degree, Jen-Hsun invested his drive and passion in co-founding NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. The company has since become the world leader in visual computing. Through its development of the graphics processing unit, or GPU, NVIDIA has brought the power of parallel processing to devices ranging from smartphones and tablets to workstations and supercomputers. ~source

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