Shen Zhenjiang is Professor and Director of the International Joint Laboratory at Fuzhou University, Foreign Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and President of the International Society for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development. He is a Special-Class High-Level Talent of Fujian Province， and Leader and Chief Expert of the “Planning Full-Lifecycle Use Control Innovation Team,” a science and technology innovation team under the Ministry of Natural Resources’ High-Level Innovative Talent Program (Territorial Spatial Planning Sector). He also holds concurrent appointments including Vice Chair of the Urban Big Data Committee of the Urban Science Research Society of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and Chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Architectural Institute of Japan. 

He pioneered the international research field of “smart creation” and has long been committed to developing an interdisciplinary field integrating territorial spatial planning, low-carbon construction, and intelligent technologies. He has published more than 300 academic papers, over 150 of which are indexed in SCI, SSCI, EI, and the Web of Science Core Collection; authored 8 English monographs published by Springer and holds more than 20 patents and software copyrights. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development book series and founder of the international journal IRSPSD International. He has led or participated in 20 research projects funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), led multiple urban planning and design projects for Japanese local governments, and served as international cooperation lead in international research collaboration programs of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and MEXT, including the Asian Human Resources Program, the China–Japan–Korea Asian Campus Program, and the World Expansion Program. As a Japanese-side expert, he has participated in international cooperation projects of the United Nations and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. He has received the International Union of Architects (UIA) Architectural Heritage Protection Award and the Grand Prize of the Japan Virtual Design World Cup.