Dr Edward Wen holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied English Linguistics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Morley Scholar at the University of Michigan's English Language Institute in 2011 and served as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Macau in 2024. He also participated twice in the Macau Tertiary Education Professionals Training scheme, attending training programmes at the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall) in 2018, and at the University of Coimbra in 2019.

Dr Wen joined PolyU CPCE in January 2025. He brings onboard over 25 years of experience in tertiary-level English language teaching and teacher training in the Greater Bay Area, as well as corporate business English training and language services including translation. Prior to joining PolyU CPCE, Dr Wen served as a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, where he also held the positions of Interim Head and PhD supervisor of the Department. In addition, he worked as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Translation at Macao Polytechnic University. Dr Wen is passionate about recognising the unique qualities and potential of his diverse students, and is a strong advocate of language diversity, inclusive education, and personalised approaches to language learning and teaching.

As a dedicated researcher, Dr Wen has a wide range of research interests, including second language acquisition, bilingual and multilingual cognition, task-based language teaching, translanguaging theory and practice, cognitive translation and interpreting, discourse and genre analysis, and recently the integration of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in language education. He is an accomplished scholar with internationally recognised expertise in language aptitude, working memory, and translanguaging. As of January 2025, he has published over 70 academic papers and book chapters and authored or co-edited 10 monographs with prestigious publishers including Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.

Dr Wen also actively contributes to the research community, having organised and convened well-attended roundtable symposiums across the Greater Bay Area, delivered a dozen keynote speeches and presented numerous papers at both local and international conferences. Additionally, he serves as the Director and Executive Committee Member of several academic organisations, as well as holding positions as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Guest Editor and Editorial Board Member of various international journals.