SEOUL, November 08 (AJP) - Nvidia executive Madison Huang has called off a planned visit to Seoul. The cancellation comes as her father, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, faces questions from U.S. lawmakers over his ties to a businesswoman suspected of spying for China.
Huang, senior director of product marketing for Nvidia's Omniverse and robotics platforms, had been scheduled to arrive Sunday. She was due to attend Nvidia AI Day Seoul 2026 at COEX on Monday and Tuesday and to hold talks with government ministries, government officials and industry sources said Saturday.
The officials said she pulled out for family reasons but gave no details. The event will go ahead without her.
The trip would have been her third to South Korea this year. In April, she met Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, Hyundai Motor, LG Electronics and Doosan Robotics to discuss physical AI cooperation, the use of artificial intelligence to run robots and factory machines. In June, she traveled with her father on his visit to Seoul and helped coordinate his schedule.
Her father, meanwhile, has been drawn into a widening espionage controversy in Washington.
In a letter dated Nov. 4, three senior House Republicans asked Jensen Huang to give them a closed-door briefing on Nov. 18. The signers were Brian Mast, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rick Crawford, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
They asked him to explain his dealings with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based data center operator Megaspeed, and to describe Nvidia's protections against espionage by foreign adversaries.
U.S. media reported last month that American intelligence officials suspected Alice Huang, a Chinese national also known as Huang Le, of passing information to Chinese intelligence after cultivating a close relationship with the Nvidia chief. She is not related to Jensen Huang.
Megaspeed buys AI chips from Nvidia. The company has previously drawn U.S. scrutiny over suspicions that it helped Chinese firms get around Washington's export controls on advanced chips.
Nvidia said customers such as Megaspeed receive ordinary business information and nothing relevant to national security. Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dismissed the reports on Oct. 30 as groundless speculation aimed at smearing China. Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said its authorities had not investigated Alice Huang.
Nvidia did not comment on the lawmakers' letter.
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