Sola Kim

I recently earned my PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University in May 2026. I am also a Research Aide at Argonne National Laboratory. My research asks how AI (mis)represents people and shapes collective action toward sustainability. This work earned ASU’s Outstanding University Graduate Award.

AI Societal Impact·Environmental Policy·Citizen Participation·Computational Social Science

Selected Projects

Do LLMs Treat All Public Voices Equally?

Occupation-based bias in federal LLM comment summaries.

Under review

LLMs Misrepresent American Climate Opinions

Systematic bias in LLM climate opinion representation.

Under review Featured in Daily Papers AI

Psychologically-Grounded LLM Agents

Modeling diverse stakeholder perspectives.

ICLR 2026 Algorithmic Fairness Across Alignment Procedures and Agentic Systems (AFAA) Workshop

LLM Decision Support for Nuclear Waste

Multi-agent regulatory compliance assessment.

Waste Management 2025 Paper of Note · Superior Paper

News

2mo ago

📰 I was featured in ASU News: Outstanding Graduate explores AI’s role in collaborative decision-making around sustainability.

3mo ago

📝 I posted my new research on arXiv: All Public Voices Are Equal, But Are Some More Equal Than Others to LLMs?.

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3mo ago

🎉 I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation!

3mo ago

🏆 I was honored to receive the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Rob and Melani Walton College of Global Futures, in addition to being recognized by the School of Sustainability upon graduation.

4mo ago

🎉 My paper Persona Alchemy: Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Psychologically-Grounded LLM Agents for Diverse Stakeholder Representation has been accepted at the Algorithmic Fairness Across Alignment Procedures and Agentic Systems (AFAA) Workshop at ICLR 2026.

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7mo ago

📝 I posted my new research on arXiv: How Large Language Models Systematically Misrepresent American Climate Opinions.

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10mo ago

👩🏻‍💻 My work in progress has been accepted for presentation at the 20th Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2025.

10mo ago

🚀 I've joined Argonne National Laboratory as a Research Aide Technical – PhD in the Applied Materials Division, working on multi LLM agent-supported decision support systems. Recently relocated to Chicago and looking forward to this new chapter!

10mo ago

💿 I participated in Technology for Good: A Workshop on Techno-Human Possibility, the culminating event of the ASU NSF Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES) project, and presented my work in progress.

11mo ago

🇰🇷 I was honored to be selected as an awardee of the Korean Honor Scholarship from the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United States of America.

11mo ago

⛺️ As second author, I co-authored the paper A New Lens on Homelessness: Daily Tent Monitoring with 311 Calls and Street Images, which was accepted to the 18th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS).

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1y ago

🪑 I chaired and presented my work in progress at the 20th Biennial International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 2025, in a panel titled “Information Technology and Commons”.

1y ago

🏆 I co-authored AI-Supported Platform for System Monitoring and Decision-Making in Nuclear Waste Management with Large Language Models, which was submitted to WM 2025, and recognized as a “Paper of Note” and “Superior Paper.”

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1y ago

🎉 I‘ve officially passed my dissertation prospectus, “Hey GPT, Are We on the Same Page?: AI, Humans, and Institutions Wrestling with Environmental Justice under Climate Uncertainties”. I’m now a PhD candidate!

1y ago

🌸 I participated in the CCC's Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research in Washington, DC, to explore integrating computational methods and citizen science for emerging research challenges.