Jiali Wang is a doctoral student in the School of Education specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC).

​Jiali majored in English language and literature during her undergraduate study. Her exchange experience in UCLA inspired her to learn to do research, especially on language and literacy development. Then, she studied at Vanderbilt and earned her Master degree in English Language Learners. During her time at Vanderbilt, she was a research assistant at the Language and Literacy Development of Diverse Learners (LLD-CLED) lab. She hopes she can keep exploring ELLs' and bilinguals' literacy and language development at UCI.