Speakers

Dr. Angelica Lim is the Director of the Rosie Lab, and an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Previously, she led the Emotion and Expressivity teams for the Pepper humanoid robot at SoftBank Robotics. She received her B.Sc. in Computing Science (Artificial Intelligence Specialization) from SFU and a Ph.D. and Masters in Computer Science (Intelligence Science) from Kyoto University, Japan. She has been featured on the BBC, TEDx, hosted a TV documentary on robotics, and was recently featured in Forbes 20 Leading Women in AI.

Passionate about diversity, she is the Director of Invent the Future (AI4ALL) program for Canada, teaches CMPT 120: Introduction to Computing Science and Programming and has developed the SFU Computer Science Teaching Toolkit , with the goal of inspiring people of all backgrounds to pursue Computing Science. She also teaches Introduction to Software Engineering and Affective Computing.

Just like any other high school students, Shiva applied to Simon Fraser University and once she received her acceptance letter she was overwhelmed with happiness and excitement. While reading the letter Shiva learned that she got admitted to her first choice of program.......
Computer Science??? You see Shiva never planned to study Computer Science and upon some research her heart dropped when she realized that she made a mistake while she was filling in her application. Too terrified and uncertain regarding the potential consequences of admitting her mistake for choosing the wrong program, she accepted her fate (aka she wasn't sure who would be more mad, her mother or SFU). Shiva didn't know anything about computers, she didn't own any laptops or computers, and she wasn't sure what computer science meant or what was it about? Was it like biology but for computers? She didn't know and that's how she began her first year of university.
Well it's safe to say that Shiva started enjoying computer science and writing code. In fact she thought she was a genius when she wrote her first program which just added 3 to 4 but she felt proud and really good about it. Shiva is now a fourth plus year Computing Science student at Simon Fraser University. She just finished her first internship at Sierra Wireless and she was the Vice President of the Computing Science Student Society. As clumsy as she sometimes can get we think she is pretty lucky and she is doing fine.

Doris is a fifth year computer science student at SFU. She's completed software development internships at Google and participated in a semester of exchange in Taiwan. In her free time she enjoys running/hiking, reading, and trying new cafes/ice cream shops. She's excited to share her experiences at this year's Try/CATCH.

Valerie is in her last year of Computing Science and Statistics studies at SFU. She started off as a Bioinformatics student at Langara College, switched full-time to CS, and then took on a minor in Statistics when she transferred to SFU. Her journey has been long but rewarding with internships at Morgan Stanley as a Junior Analyst and Microsoft as a PM. Valerie loves to learn, and her favorite courses so far have been Computer Architecture and Operating Systems. In her free time, Valerie enjoys watching reality TV, karaoke, and being a part of her school's Computing Science community. If you have any questions for Valerie or are just looking to chat - feel free to reach out!

Katie is currently a fourth-year student studying computing science. She has experience in web development and database communication. Outside of computer science, she enjoys watching true crime documentaries, going on runs, and puppy-sitting for her neighbours! She is beyond excited to be a panelist at Try/CATCH 2023!