Oregon State University (OSU) has announced $100 million in gifts to launch a $200 million research and education center, including a gift of $50 million to the OSU Foundation from Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, and his wife, Lori.

The couple are OSU graduates and met while undergraduates in the College of Engineering. The center will be named the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex and will harness one of the nation’s most powerful supercomputers and team-based research in artificial intelligence, materials science, and robotics. The three-story, 150,000-square-foot center is being designed and is expected to open in 2025. The center will employ a NVIDIA supercomputer to support faculty in addressing highly complex and challenging computational problems.

The university has received four gifts of at least $25 million or more toward the campaign to date. OSU also plans to request $75 million in state-paid bonding to match philanthropic and university contributions for the complex.

“We discovered our love for computer science and engineering at OSU,” said the Huangs. “We hope this gift will help inspire future generations of students also to fall in love with technology and its capacity to change the world.”

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