Faculty Profiles

Ye Shen

assistant professor

Ye Shen

Email: yeshen@usf.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Dr. Ye Shen is an assistant professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Shen earned her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delaware and completed a Dean鈥檚 Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Shen is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of multilingual children鈥檚 education through innovative research and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is on a mission to support multilingual children鈥檚 learning and development by contributing to the knowledge base on their language, literacy, academic, and socioemotional development. Dr. Shen broadly focuses 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 her research uses quantitative-oriented method, such as longitudinal growth curve modeling, structural equation modeling, and regressions.

Dr. Shen鈥檚 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.