Bio

Angelica Lim is an associate professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Director of the ROSIE Lab (Robots with Social Intelligence and Empathy). Her research envisions an AI future where machines understand and adapt to the richness of human communication. She develops artificial intelligence models of nonverbal communication, including facial expressions, body gestures and speech prosody, to build empathic, context-aware and compassionate machines. Her work is grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration with psychologists, cognitive scientists, clinicians and neuroscientists, advancing responsible and human-centered robotics. She and her team have received the Best Paper in Entertainment Robotics and Cognitive Robotics Awards at IROS 2011 and 2022, and Best Demo and LBR at HRI 2021 and 2023. Dr. Lim has been featured by the BBC, TEDx, and Forbes’ 20 Leading Women in AI, and she hosted a television documentary on robotics. She is the creator of the SFU CS Teaching Toolkit, the author of Python Practice Lab (Princeton Univ. Press), and has received multiple teaching awards at the university level.

She can be found on LinkedIn.