Payal Patel

Payal Patel is a User Experience Researcher at Beam Benefits, where employment began in June 2021, following a role as a UX Research Intern. Previous academic experience includes serving as a Graduate Student Researcher and Teaching Assistant at McMaster University, where research focused on human memory and perception, involving literature reviews, data design, and data analysis using tools such as SPSS, Excel, R, and Python. Payal also has experience as an Undergraduate Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo, emphasizing cognitive offloading and memory manipulations, resulting in peer-reviewed publications. Payal holds a Master's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Waterloo.