The MiNT lab, led by Principal Investigator Dr. Ye Shen, is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of multilingual children's education through innovative research and interdisciplinary collaboration. We are driven by a passion for discovery, and dedicated to pursuing research that not only contributes to the academic discourse but also has practical implications and societal impact.

We are a group of educational scholars on a mission to support multilingual children’s learning and development by contributing to the knowledge base on their language, literacy, academic, and socioemotional development. We broadly focus on early development of culturally and linguistically diverse children and how early development and education may reduce racial and social-class disparities. The bulk of our research uses quantitative-oriented method, such as longitudinal growth curve modeling, structural equation modeling, and regressions. Our award-winning research has been published in top-tier journals and funded by the American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation, American Psychological Association, and the Language Learning Early Career Research Grant.