Trump Says He Wants Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to Stay on Science Council

President Donald Trump said Saturday, Oct. 31, he wants Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to remain on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), pending further findings about an associate.

Asked whether Huang would stay on the council, Trump said, “I would like to say yes.” He said he respected Huang, would examine the matter closely and considered it complex. Trump also said he had not known about the specific matter.

People familiar with classified U.S. intelligence assessments said officials believed Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, had sent information to Beijing and developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang. The findings have not been made public. They do not establish that Jensen Huang knew about the alleged activity or shared sensitive information.

Nvidia has described Jensen Huang’s contacts with Alice Huang as routine customer interactions. Nvidia said its regional cloud clients receive standard commercial information, not trade secrets or material relevant to national security. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun rejected the report on Oct. 30, calling it unsubstantiated and a smear against China.

People familiar with the matter said Trump had been briefed on the findings around a year before Saturday and did not act at the time. The exact date and contents of Trump’s earlier briefing on the findings are not public.

Trump appointed Huang to PCAST on March 25. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said in May that some advanced-computing export license requirements apply to China-headquartered entities operating abroad, a general policy that made no finding about Alice Huang or Megaspeed. Trump announced no new export restriction or specific financial impact for Nvidia.