Reinaldo is a PhD candidate at UC Irvine whose work sits at the intersection of bilingualism, heritage and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. His research examines typical and atypical monolingual and bilingual development, with close attention to how social, educational, and linguistic factors shape language outcomes. He integrates quantitative and network-based approaches to understand multilingual assessment and has been actively involved in initiatives promoting bilingualism and open science.