Lie You is an Associate Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and also a research fellow at the Institute for Urban Governance. He received his degrees in urban planning and architectural sesign from Tianjin University and earned his Ph.D. in urban and rural planning from Tongji University. He is a certified national urban planner in China. His research focuses on the transformation of human settlements, urban regeneration, rural planning, and regional development. He has proposed several original theoretical frameworks, including the “Six-State Model of Human Settlement Transformation,” “Spatial Inertia of Human Settlements,” and the “Cyclical Framework of Human Settlements.” His work has been published in journals such as "Geographical Research", "Urban Planning", and "Land Use Policy", and he has received multiple awards, including the Shanghai Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences and the Jin Jingchang Award for Outstanding Urban Planning Papers in China.