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Excellence in Teaching Award, 2025

Angelica Lim creates inclusive, hands-on learning environments that connect computing science to real-world applications and diverse experiences. In her courses, learners engage in active, practice-based work—coding in class, tackling real-world AI problems and building skills in communication, ethics and interdisciplinary thinking. She takes a holistic, integrative approach to technology education, bringing together computing, ethics and human-centred design to highlight the broader impact of this work.

Lim has led significant curriculum redesign, including transforming introductory and upper-level courses to be more relevant to today’s technological landscape. As well, she expands access to computing education through outreach programs that support underrepresented students in building confidence and pathways into STEM. She created the SFU  and authored Python Practice Lab (Princeton University Press), extending her impact beyond SFU, and is a recipient of the 51ÉçÇøºÚÁÏComputing Science Excellence in Teaching Award. Her AI research has been featured by the BBC and TEDx, and she is recognized as one of Forbes’ "20 Leading Women in AI." 

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