Yasamin Motamedi

I am a quantitative researcher with a decade of experience in research project managment, research design, and working with complex, multimodal data. I currently work as a data scientist for UserTesting, a video platform for customer experience testing. At UserTesting, I work on the Decision Science team, using quantitative analysis of customer usage data to inform product development.

I previously worked as an academic researcher, where my research focussed on how children and adults learn and use language, and how languages evolve in response to the biases we bring to bear during interaction and learning. In particular, I explored how our ability to communicate through different modalities (i.e. speech, gesture, facial expressions) can facilitate learning and affect the types of linguistic structures we use. I have used both experimental and observational data in my research, including online experiments, corpus analysis and secondary data analysis to answer questions about human behaviour. You can find a list of my publications (with links) on this site.

When I'm not wrestling with data problems, I enjoy swimming, sewing and making tiny cakes.


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