PROFILE

Angelica Lim builds artificial intelligence for robots to interact with humans in a smart, fun way by combining neuroscience, machine learning, and developmental psychology to model emotion. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University in Japan, where she serves as a researcher in the Okuno Speech Media Processing Lab in the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology. She currently works as a Software Engineering Manager at Aldebaran Robotics in Paris, France. Her previous creations include robots that play music in a human ensemble, speak and gesture with expression, recognize emotion in movement, and explore land and sea.