Prof. Wen is a co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (from July 2019), an Associate Editor of Automatica (from Feb 2006) and the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Control and Decision. He also served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2000 to 2002, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (from May 2013 to Jan 2020) and IEEE Control Systems Magazine from 2009 to 2019, respectively. He has been actively involved in organizing international conferences playing the roles of General Chair, General Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, Program Committee Member, General Advisor, Publicity Chair and so on. He was the recipient of a number of awards, including the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award from the Institution of Engineers, Singapore in 2005, and Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2017.

His main research activities are in the areas of control systems and applications, autonomous robotic system, cyber-physical systems, smart grids, complex systems and networks.