Zipan Cai is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Architecture, Southeast University. He received his B.Sc. (Honours) in Geomatics with a Minor in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2014, and earned his M.Sc. (2017) and Ph.D. (2023) degrees from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and previously worked as an Assistant Urban Planner at AECOM. From 2023 to 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Planning at Lund University, Sweden, and continues as a Guest Researcher at KTH and a core member of the SATORI (GeoSpAtial daTa-mOdel-aRtificial Intelligence) Research Lab. His research focuses on urban spatial dynamic modeling, AI-driven urban planning, and sustainable urban regeneration, integrating vision-language models and deep learning to simulate and optimize urban spaces.eling, planning support systems, and climate neutrality.