Shen, currently a real estate professor at MIT, is taking over for Arthur Jemison, who left earlier this month.

Kairos Shen’s two decades actively spent shaping the city of Boston’s evolution aren’t over. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Tuesday named the longtime Boston Redevelopment Agency chief planner under equally longtime former Mayor Tom Menino as the new chief of planning – successor role to the Boston Planning & Development Agency director at the new Boston Planning Department.

Mayor Michelle Wu has appointed Kairos Shen, a longtime top planning official under former Mayor Tom Menino, as the next chief of planning.

Mayor Michelle Wu has appointed Kairos Shen as Boston’s new Chief of Planning. Shen will lead the Planning Department, which was established by Wu in July.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has named a new chief of planning following Arthur Jemison 's departure. The mayor appointed Kairos Shen, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who previously spent two decades working for the city, to lead the Boston Planning Department, she announced Tuesday evening.