---
alias:
- Eugene Y. Jhong
- Jhong, Eugene
category: Business & Finance
created: 2026-10-03
location: Los Altos, California
relations:
- fn: 1
  role: Philanthropic Advisory Board
  start: 2021
  type: member_of
  with: '[[Galileo Project]]'
- fn: 3
  role: 5,800 dollars on December 27, 2021 (two 2,900 dollar entries earmarked through
    WinRed) to Blake Masters for Senate, per FEC records under the name "Jhong, Eugene"
    of Los Altos
  start: 2021-12-27
  type: funded
  with: '[[Blake Masters]]'
- fn: 3
  role: 2,700 dollars on May 10, 2018, with the memo "0.59101569 bitcoins received,
    not liquidated," to Brian Forde for Congress, per FEC records under the name "Jhong,
    Eugene" of Los Altos
  start: 2018-05-10
  type: funded
  with: '[[Brian Forde]]'
summary: Eugene Jhong holds Harvard A.B. and J.D. degrees and a Stanford master's
  in computer science, and is listed on the Galileo Project's Philanthropic Advisory
  Board.
tags:
- Person
- Investor
- Philanthropy
- Harvard
- Cryptocurrency
updated: 2026-10-03
---

[Eugene Jhong](/people/eugene-jhong/) is listed first among the members of the Philanthropic Advisory Board of Harvard's [Galileo Project](/organizations/galileo-project/), with the credentials "Undergraduate (AB) and law degree (JD) from [Harvard University](/organizations/harvard-university/)" and "MS in Computer Science, [Stanford University](/organizations/stanford-university/)."[^1] The advisory board is described as providing "philanthropic advice to The Galileo Project." Its other listed entries are Vinny Jain, Teddy Jones, the Laukien Science Foundation, Joerg Laukien, William A. Linton of Promega Corporation and the Usona Institute, and Adnan Sen. The project's July 26, 2021 release states that it has "initial funding from generous donations and pledges by individuals and foundations listed on the Galileo Project website."[^1][^2]

### Patent

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent 6,259,458 B1, "Method of generating and navigating a 3-D representation of a hierarchical data structure," on July 10, 2001 to an inventor named Eugene Jhong (with co-inventor Karen E. Theisen), assignee Elastic Technology, Inc.; the application was filed January 29, 1999 and claims priority to August 6, 1997. The patent record does not tie the inventor to the Galileo Project or to Google, and no source read for this page states that Jhong worked at Google.[^4]

### Federal Election Commission records

The [FEC](/organizations/federal-election-commission/)'s itemized receipts list contributions under the name "Jhong, Eugene" of Los Altos, California; no record read states that this donor is the Galileo adviser, though the Galileo biography (Stanford master's in computer science) and the occupation fields (engineer in 2012, retired or investor later) are consistent with it. The entries: 201.20 dollars to the Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign (January 14, 2012; occupation engineer, employer self); 2,700 dollars to Brian Forde for Congress on May 10, 2018 with the memo "0.59101569 bitcoins received, not liquidated" (the itemization also carries offsetting negative entries of the same amount, which appear to be amendment reporting), and on July 14, 2018 a 2,700 dollar entry and its reversal marked "redesignation of general 2018 contribution"; 8,302.24 dollars on May 22, 2018 to the 314 Action Fund, itemized as a "non-contribution account" of 1.00 bitcoin, not liquidated; 500 dollars on March 5, 2019, 2,000 dollars on October 28, 2019 and 250 dollars on December 31, 2019 to Friends of Andrew Yang; 5,800 dollars on December 27, 2021 to Blake Masters for Senate (two 2,900 dollar entries earmarked through WinRed, with a matching 5,800 dollar WinRed conduit entry); 2,900 dollars on April 25, 2022 to Bruce Fenton for Liberty (occupation investor, employer self); and 2,900 dollars on November 3, 2022 to Gillibrand for Senate.[^3]

[^1]: "Advisory Boards." The Galileo Project website, snapshot of December 25, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221225170229/https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/organization/advisory-boards
[^2]: The Galileo Project. "Press Release and Press Conference Announcement," July 26, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/galileo_project-announcement_pr-7.26.21.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
[^3]: Federal Election Commission, schedule A receipts, contributor name "JHONG, EUGENE" (OpenFEC API query run October 3, 2026). https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=JHONG%2C%20EUGENE
[^4]: Jhong, Eugene, and Karen E. Theisen. U.S. Patent 6,259,458 B1, granted July 10, 2001. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6259458B1/en (patent record; the Google Patents site is used only to display the USPTO document).