Hi! I’m Angelica, and I’m an A.I. roboticist. I’m an Associate Professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University and lead the SFU Rosie Lab, where we build artificial intelligence software for robots to interact with social intelligence and empathy. I am also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

Ever since I was little, I imagined robots as kind and compassionate. My research asks how we can build AI systems that understand and adapt to the ways that humans communicate, rather than requiring humans to communicate like machines. We take inspiration from psychology and neuroscience and take a human-centered approach to machine learning.

I have a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kyoto University, Japan, specializing in AI applied to Robotics, and a B.Sc. in Computing Science (specializing in Artificial Intelligence) from Simon Fraser University in Canada. Previously, I led the Emotion and Expressivity teams for the Pepper humanoid robot at SoftBank Robotics.

Passionate about diversity, I developed the SFU Computer Science Teaching Toolkit, with the goal of ensuring that all teachers have the resourcse they need to teach students about Computer Science and programming.

Contact me at hello[at]angelicalim.com, or find me on BlueSky, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google Scholar!

Keywords: robotics, artificial emotion, human-robot interaction, signal processing, multimodal gesture recognition, machine learning, SIRE emotion model, affective computing, entertainment robotics.