GAO Wen is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He is the founding director of Pengcheng Laboratory (Shenzhen, China). He is also a Boya Chair Professor at Peking University. He is currently a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress. He used to be a member of the 10th, 11th and 12th CPPCC National Committee, the vice president of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the chairman of China Computer Federation and the chief editor of Chinese Journal of Computers.

He earned seven State Awards in Science and Technology Achievements as the first accomplisher. He received the IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award (2025), National May 1 Labor Medal (2023), Wu Wenjun AI Highest Achievement Award (2023), the Special Prize on Scientific and Technological Progress of the Guangdong Province Science and Technology Award (2023), the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2022), the Outstanding Contribution Award of Guangdong Province (2021), the CCF Wang Xuan Award and the title of “2005 China’s Top Ten Educational Talents”.

GAO Wen has engaged in the research of artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and virtual reality. He published six books and over 300 papers in international journals in the above areas.