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Angelica Lim is an American-Canadian AI roboticist. She first started researching robots in 2008. Lim is currently an assistant professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is also the head and founder of the Simon Fraser University Rosie Lab, which specializes in AI software development. Much of her work involves exploring the emotional capabilities of AI machines, and how AI interacts with music. Lim is the first to provide a scientifically published definition and implementation for robot feelings.

Early life and education
Lim was born to Filipino and Chinese parents. Her childhood had her moving around the world constantly; Lim was born in California, USA, but lived in several other countries including Canada, France, and Japan. She became interested in robotics as a young child due to media influences like The Jetsons in her childhood, wanting to understand the ability of robots to mimic human emotion. She also imagined robots as kind and compassionate, wondering, “Could a robot have feelings?” and “How would that even work?” With that, her research addresses this question by combining neuroscience, machine learning and developmental psychology.

Pursuing her interests in robotics, Lim’s education involved extensive studies in the fields of neuroscience, machine learning, and developmental psychology. Lim received a B.S.c. in Computing science at Simon Fraser University in 2008. She later received an M.S.c. in Informatics (Computer Science) at Kyoto University in 2012, where she initially started her robotics research, developing a robot that could play in a symphony with a human orchestra. She wrote her Master’s thesis on how humans and robots generate and analyze emotions, entitled Design and Implementation of Emotions for Humanoid Robots based on the Modality-independent DESIRE Model. Her work in robotics up to this point led her to pursue neuroscience to understand how emotions develop in humans, which she hoped to extrapolate onto robots.

Lim continued her graduate training at Kyoto University and received her Ph.D. in Informatics (Computer Science) in 2014. Her doctoral thesis concerned the advancement in robotic emotion based on human emotional development, entitled MEI: Multimodal Emotional Intelligence.

Career and research
Before working at the Rosie Lab, Lim worked on software teams at SoftBank and Aldebaran Robotics, where she assisted in the development of the infamous Pepper robot. She also previously worked as an intern software engineer and researcher at Google, Honda Research Institute Japan, and I3S-CNRS, France. She also served as a journalist for the IEE Spectrum Automaton Robotics Blog.

During her time at Simon Fraser University, Kyoto University, and beyond, she helped design and develop several robots, including Têtard (2007), an autonomous underwater vehicle; Caprica (2008), a search and rescue robot; HRP-2 Thereminist (2010-2011), a musical accompaniment robot; NAO (2011-present) cook, musician, and interactive game extraordinaire; Ahiru-chan (2010) a dancing robot baby duck; HEARBO (2011), a robot that uses its ears and thermal cameras to understand its world; etc.

Lim has hosted several TED Talks covering the topics of AI and robotics. Some of her most notable talks have been On Designing User-Friendly Robots (TEDx Kyoto, 2012) and Robots, Emotions and Empathy (TEDx Kuala Lumpur, 2014).

Awards and recognition

 * NTF Award for Entertainment Robots and Systems IROS (2010)
 * Featured in Forbes 20 Leading Women in AI