Prof. Alvin Wang Graylin

Biography

Alvin Wang Graylin is a technology strategist who works on AI policy, global technology governance and US-China relations. He is Senior Fellow for Technology at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, a Digital Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab within the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Professor of AI Tech Policy at the University of Washington and a lecturer at MIT. He also chairs the Virtual World Society.

He has spent more than 35 years working across the US and China in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, immersive computing and cybersecurity. He was Global Vice President and China President of HTC, where he led the company’s XR business for nearly a decade, and earlier held senior roles at Intel, IBM and Trend Micro. He has founded four venture-backed startups and invested in more than 100 early-stage companies.

He advises governments, multilateral organizations and Fortune 100 leadership teams on AI policy and on the economic transition that advanced AI brings. His argument is that the US and China have more to gain from cooperating on AI safety than from racing each other, a case he makes in his Quincy Institute brief “The Wrong Race: The US, China, and AI Competition” and in his 2025 TED Talk. He is co-author of Our Next Reality (Hachette, 2024).

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and in business from the MIT Sloan School of Management.