Jensen Huang will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, for his pioneering work in the development of GPUs. These currently form the technical basis for AI development. In 1993, Jensen Huang founded the American electronics company Nvidia, which initially focused on computer graphics but quickly became a leader in the development of some of the world’s most advanced technologies. Under his leadership, Nvidia has become a key player in the AI-driven industrial revolution. Nvidia’s GPUs are used in Berzelius, a supercomputer for AI and machine learning, located at the National Supercomputing Centre (NSC) at LiU.
Linköping University also award honorary doctorates to Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlén and the international researchers Angela Woods, professor at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, and Gillian Einstein, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. They will all be awarded their honorary doctorates at LiU’s Academic Ceremony in May.
Read more about the Academic Celebrations: https://liu.se/en/academic-celebration