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Dr. Larry Wen (Lian Wen) is a Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Technology within Griffith Sciences at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Peking University (1987), a Master of Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Space Technology (1990), and a PhD in Software Engineering from Griffith University (2007). Prior to academia, he worked as a software engineer in China.

Wen specializes in software engineering research, with interests in software requirements defects detection, change impact analysis, behaviour engineering, software process formalisation, requirements change management, global software development, process assessment and capability determination, ontology approaches in software engineering, complex networks in software engineering, and formal models for behavior trees. Affiliated with Rene Hexel's Lab, his notable publications include BERDD: A Behaviour Engineering-Based Approach for Requirements Defects Detection (2024), BECIA: a behaviour engineering-based approach for change impact analysis (2023), Identifying “sloppy” users in TMS through operation logs (2023), Using composition trees to matching software requirements—An external agency's approach to support software acquisition (2022), A Formal Model for Behavior Trees Based on Context-Free Grammar (2020), Formalising Process Assessment and Capability Determination: An Ontology Approach (2019), Comparative Analysis of Requirement Change Management Challenges Between in-House and Global Software Development (2019), A Systematic Approach for Identifying Requirement Change Management Challenges: Preliminary Results (2019), Introducing Requirements Change Management Process into ISO/IEC 12207 (2018), and A scale-free model for random ASP programs (2018). Earlier contributions feature A Hierarchical Architecture for Modeling Complex Software Intensive Systems Using Behavior Trees (2009, with G. Dromey). His work has accumulated 489 citations on ResearchGate.

In education, Wen convenes courses such as Object Oriented Software Development (7010ICT, 2006ICT), Mobile Device Software Development (7421ICT), and Mobile Application Development (3701ICT). He supervises PhD projects on Behavior Engineering and has served on program committees for SPICE conferences (2018, 2020). In 2015, he was honored in the Griffith Sciences Excellence Awards for ICT achievements.