Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, film star Tony Leung to get honorary doctorates in Hong Kong

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is due to visit Hong Kong next month to receive an honorary doctorate along with film star Tony Leung Chiu-wai and two renowned scholars.

In an email sent to the students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and seen by the Post, the institution said it would confer honorary doctorates on Huang, Leung, Nobel laureate Michael Levitt and American mathematician David Mumford in recognition of their distinguished accomplishments and contributions on November 23.

Huang will be given an honorary Phd in engineering, while Leung will receive a doctorate of humanities. Levitt and Mumford will both receive doctorates of science.

Huang is the co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia, a chip company that makes graphics processing units (GPUs) and which recently dethroned tech giant Apple as the world’s most valuable company following a record-setting stock rally.

Born on February 17, 1963, in Tainan, Taiwan, Huang moved to the United States as a child and later earned degrees in electrical engineering at Oregon State University and Stanford University.

Under his leadership, Nvidia has become a leader in the fields of gaming, artificial intelligence and data centres.