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The Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex will be a dynamic home for team-based transdisciplinary research and teaching. It will be a place where creative, driven faculty and students come together to solve critical challenges facing the world in areas such as climate science, clean energy and water resources.

The Huang Complex is named after Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, and his wife Lori, both of whom are Oregon State University graduates.

The Huang Complex will be built on Oregon State University’s Corvallis campus near the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center in the vicinity of Northwest Monroe Avenue, Southwest Park Terrace Place and Southwest Memorial Place. It is currently under construction.

The three-story, 143,000-square foot Huang Complex will house the latest technology supercomputer, and specialized research facilities such as an extended reality theater, an innovation lab and cyber physical playground, and an ocean and clean water research lab. It will also include laboratories for faculty and students.

The Huang Complex will feature a state-of-the art supercomputer cluster. Water to cool the supercomputer will help heat more than 500,000 square feet of building space on OSU’s Corvallis campus.

The Huang Complex underpins OSU’s research and education efforts supporting Oregon’s industries. For example, it will be a key component of efforts championed by Oregon federal and state leaders and business and Oregon university leaders to sustain and expand the strength of Oregon’s semiconductor industry. The complex will support innovation, entrepreneurship and partnerships with industry and other higher education institutions, while helping to prepare graduates for Oregon’s workforce and beyond.

The $200 million Huang Complex was made possible by two $50 million gifts, from Jen-Hsun and Lori Mills Huang and the Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation. The state legislature also approved $72 million in capital bonds for the building’s construction, with the remainder of the funding coming from the university. The university also will seek additional public and private sector support for research programs within the Huang complex, enabling targeted faculty hires and advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM education.

The Huang Complex is anticipated to open in 2026.