Sue Lim
Bio
Sue is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication. She received her B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at UPenn, with a concentration in Marketing. She worked as a data analyst at a marketing research company (NAXION) for four years before deciding to pursue her passion for academic research.
Research and Teaching
Sue's current main research interest is in artificial social influence, or how we can best leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to build influential embodied AI agents in immersive virtual reality (VR) environments.Her other projects mostly use biobehavioral and neurophysiological measurements, in conjuction with self-reports, to understand people's behavior and experience in simulated virtual environments.
In general, Sue is also interested in using and developing AI and other computational tools to examine interpersonal and human-AI communication processes.
Sue is a Google PhD Fellowship nominee for 2024-2025 school year and attended the 2023 MIND summer school for computational neuroscience (topic: interacting minds).
Sue's teaching experience includes Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Use Case for Communication Research, Methods of Communication Inquiry, Introduction to Organizational Communicaton, Human Communication, and Business Communication.
