Chris Malachowsky (born May 2, 1959) is an American electrical engineer and business executive who is a cofounder, along with Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem, of the American technology company Nvidia. Malachowsky has worked for Nvidia since its founding in 1993 and is a senior vice president for engineering and operations.
Raised in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Malachowsky graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1976. He received a B.S. degree in 1983, in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. degree in 1986 from Santa Clara University.
Early in his career, Malachowsky worked for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. While working at Sun Microsystems, he became coworkers with Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem. In April 1993, the three conceived of Nvidia during a meeting at Denny's. Malachowsky went on to become a Senior Vice President for Engineering and Operations at Nvidia.
In November 2023, the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology was officially opened at the University of Florida. Malachowsky invested $25 million in the creation of HiPerGator AI, which UF claimed to be "the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by a university in the U.S."