Sola Kim

I’m a PhD candidate in Sustainability at Arizona State University (expected Spring 2026) and a Research Aide Technical at Argonne National Laboratory. I study how AI systems shape the representation of communities most affected by climate and environmental policy. My work combines LLM evaluation, multi-agent system design, and environmental governance to bridge AI development and societal impact.

AI & Sustainability·LLM Evaluation & Bias·Multi-Agent Systems·Computational Sustainability·Environmental Justice·Environmental Policy and Governance

Selected Projects

LLMs Misrepresent American Climate Opinions

Systematic bias in LLM climate opinion representation.

Psychologically-Grounded LLM Agents

Modeling diverse stakeholder perspectives.

News

yesterday

🎉 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.

2mo ago

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

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5mo ago

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

5mo 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!

6mo 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.

6mo 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.

7mo 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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8mo 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”.

9mo ago

📝 I posted my new research on arXiv: Persona Alchemy: Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Psychologically-Grounded LLM Agents for Diverse Stakeholder Representation.

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9mo 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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10mo 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!

10mo 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.