Jensen Huang Accused of Cheating Again: Who Is Kimberly Powell?

Did Jensen Huang cheat again? The short answer

That is what The New York Times reported on 11 November 2026. Citing five people who worked at Nvidia, the paper said the chief executive had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, the company's vice president of healthcare, who reports to him. Huang, Powell and Nvidia have not confirmed it.

The report lands three days after Huang admitted to an affair. On 8 November he said he had been unfaithful to his wife, after reports that US officials believed Alice Huang, a businesswoman he was close to, was a Chinese intelligence asset. This time there is no admission: when the Times asked him about Powell, he reportedly said, "I don't think you should be talking to me directly," and hung up.

So two questions are everywhere: who is Kimberly Powell, and what does she look like? Below is what the reporting says, who she is, and what her face measures in three public photos.

The photos on this page are public photos of Kimberly Powell and Jensen Huang. The measurement lines were drawn by GlowUp Face on Powell's Nvidia profile photo.

What The New York Times reported

According to the Times, two people said Huang and Powell were captured on video being affectionate at a hotel in San Jose, California, during Nvidia's GTC developer conference in March. The paper said it had not seen the video.

Three people briefed on the incident told the Times that Huang's security team sequestered a bystander who had filmed the moment and offered that person a nondisclosure agreement. Both Huang and Powell are married to other people, the paper reported.

Nvidia declined to comment, and Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Until one of them speaks, this is a report based on unnamed sources, not an established fact.

Why it matters for Nvidia

A relationship between a chief executive and someone who reports to him is a governance question, not only a personal one. Nvidia's code of conduct tells employees to avoid situations that create conflicts, including personal relationships, and says the company promptly investigates reports of misconduct.

The board is already investigating the Alice Huang affair, with the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. On the same day as the Times report, The Wall Street Journal reported that the board was preparing to oust Huang and could meet as soon as 11 November to decide his future. Nvidia shares fell sharply in after-hours trading. No decision had been announced when this article was published.

The timing is hard for the company. Nvidia reports quarterly results on 17 November, and Republican leaders of three House committees have asked Huang to attend a closed-door briefing, reportedly the next day. There is also a precedent: in 2018 Intel's chief executive, Brian Krzanich, resigned over a past relationship with an employee that broke the company's policy for managers.

Who is Kimberly Powell?

Kimberly Powell is Nvidia's vice president and general manager of healthcare. According to her Nvidia biography, she runs the company's worldwide healthcare business: the computing, AI and visualisation platforms behind medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery and healthcare analytics.

She started her career as a hardware engineer in medical imaging and joined Nvidia in 2008 to establish its GPUs as the accelerator platform for medical imaging instruments. She later led the company's higher education and research business, Nvidia AI Labs and the Nvidia Inception programme for start-ups, and has been vice president of healthcare since 2017. She is 48, according to the Daily Mail.

Before this week she was known mainly in healthcare and AI circles, as one of Nvidia's longest-serving executives and a regular speaker at healthcare and AI conferences.

What does Kimberly Powell look like? Her face, measured

In her public photos Powell wears her hair shoulder-length and wavy, and in all three that we measured she is smiling broadly. We measured them the way our face analysis reads proportions: a face mesh places hundreds of landmarks on the eyes, brows, cheekbones and jaw, and the angles and widths come from those points.

Her head is turned slightly in all three, so every figure below is an estimate, given as the range across the photos. For comparison, the same measurements were taken from public photos of Jensen Huang. The diagram shows the points on Powell's Nvidia profile photo: the eye-corner lines, the cheekbone width, the jaw width and the jaw angles.

1. Lifted outer eye corners

The outer corner of each eye sits higher than the inner corner, at about 5 to 6 degrees of upward tilt. Jensen Huang's eyes measure about 4 degrees on the same scale.

A tilt in this range reads as bright and alert rather than tired. It is milder than Alice Huang's, which measured about 9 degrees in our article on why Jensen Huang cheated on his wife, but it points the same way.

2. A gently tapered face

Measured across its corners, her jaw is about 80 to 82 percent of her cheekbone width, compared with about 83 percent for Jensen Huang. Her face narrows from the cheekbones toward the chin in a balanced oval rather than a sharp V-shape.

A jaw that is narrow next to the cheekbones is one of the shape differences that make a face read as feminine, and femininity is linked to attractiveness in women's faces. In a 1998 study published in Nature, David Perrett and colleagues found that people preferred feminised versions of women's faces, and Gillian Rhodes' 2006 review of facial beauty research lists femininity among the traits most consistently linked to attractiveness.

3. A soft jaw angle

Seen from the front, the angle at the corner of her jaw is about 136 degrees, against about 130 degrees for Jensen Huang. A wider angle gives a rounded jaw corner rather than a square one, which keeps the lower face soft.

This is the least precise of the three readings: the photos give between 135 and 140 degrees, and a frontal jaw angle is a rough estimate from a flat photo, not a measurement of bone.

So, is Kimberly Powell attractive?

By these measures, yes. Lifted eye corners, a balanced taper from cheekbones to jaw and a soft jaw corner add up to a face that reads as open, warm and feminine, and in every public photo it comes with a wide, easy smile.

People also agree about attractiveness far more than "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" suggests. A 2000 meta-analysis led by Judith Langlois found strong agreement in attractiveness ratings, both within and across cultures.

Does a face explain an affair?

No. A face can explain attention, not a choice. The same Langlois review found that attractive people tend to be judged and treated more favourably, but nothing in a set of facial measurements explains why a married man would be unfaithful, and in Powell's case the relationship itself has not been confirmed.

It is also worth remembering who she is: an engineer by training who has spent 18 years at Nvidia and built its healthcare business. Whatever the board's inquiry finds will be about conduct and governance, not about anyone's looks.

See what your own photo shows

The figures in this article come from 2D facial landmarks, the same kind of geometry GlowUp Face uses to read symmetry and proportions. To see what your own photo shows, upload one clear, front-facing selfie to our AI face analysis. It runs in your browser and starts with a free preview. For a quick check of how your two sides line up, try the face symmetry scan.

FAQ

Did Jensen Huang cheat again?

The New York Times reported on 11 November 2026, citing five people who worked at Nvidia, that he had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell. Huang admitted to an affair in a statement on 8 November. He, Powell and Nvidia have not confirmed the second report.

Who is Kimberly Powell?

She is Nvidia's vice president and general manager of healthcare. She joined the company in 2008 and leads its worldwide healthcare business.

How old is Kimberly Powell?

She is 48, according to the Daily Mail. Jensen Huang is 63.

Is Kimberly Powell married?

Yes. The New York Times reported that both she and Huang are married to other people.

Who is Jensen Huang's wife?

His wife is Lori Huang. The couple met as engineering students at Oregon State University and have two children. In his 8 November statement, Huang said his actions had hurt her and their children.

Will Jensen Huang be fired?

That had not been decided when this article was published. The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia's board is preparing to oust him, and the board's investigation into the Alice Huang affair is still under way.

Who is Alice Huang?

She is a businesswoman linked to Megaspeed, a data-centre company based in Singapore, whom US officials reportedly believe was a Chinese intelligence asset. She has not responded to requests for comment, and China calls the claims groundless. She is not related to Jensen Huang.

How accurate is measuring a face from a photo?

It gives an estimate, not a verdict. One 2D photo can't capture depth, and head turn or lens distortion can move an angle by a few degrees, which is why we measured three photos. Measurements describe proportions; they don't decide a person's worth.