Dr. Wen received the Ph.D. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2014. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Student Research Collaborator with Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Hong Kong Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Since 2014, he has been with South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, where he is currently a Professor. He has published 2 Springer books entitled Index Modulation for 5G Wireless Communications and Index Modulation for OFDM Communications Systems, 6 book chapters, and 400+ research papers, which receive a google citation of more than 15,000 times. His research interests include a variety of topics in the areas of wireless and molecular communications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Wen was a recipient of the IEEE Asia-Pacific (AP) Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2020, and 10+ Best Paper Awards from international conferences, including more recently IEEE ICC'2026 and IEEE PIMRC'2025. He was also the winner in data bakeoff competition (Molecular MIMO) at IEEE CTW'2019, Selfoss, Iceland. Currently, he is serving as an Editor/a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications, and IEEE Communications Letters. Previously, he served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2019-2024),  Physical Communication (2017-2019), and IEEE Access (2017-2019), and as a Guest Editor for a number of journals including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (two special issues), and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society  (two special issues).