Sola Kim
Sola Kim

Bridging between people, AI, and the Earth.

I am a Civic Science Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study. I earned my PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University in May 2026. 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

News

🏛️ I started as a Civic Science Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Excited for this new chapter!
📰 I was featured in ASU News: Outstanding Graduate explores AI’s role in collaborative decision-making around sustainability.
📝 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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🎉 I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation!
🏆 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.
🎉 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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📝 I posted my new research on arXiv: How Large Language Models Systematically Misrepresent American Climate Opinions.
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👩🏻‍💻 My work in progress has been accepted for presentation at the 20th Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2025.
🚀 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!
💿 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.
🇰🇷 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.
⛺️ 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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🪑 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”.
🏆 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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🎉 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!
🌸 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.

Thoughts

Reflections on AI, education, sustainability, and the intersection of technology and society.

Teaching

SOS 110: Building a Sustainable World

Teaching Assistant • Arizona State University

Fall 2025

SOS 326: Sustainable Ecosystems

Instructor of Record • Arizona State University

Summer 2025

SOS 310: Equity, Justice & Sustainability

Instructor of Record • Arizona State University

Summer 2024

SOS 100: Introduction to Sustainability

Instructor of Record • Arizona State University

Summer 2023

SOS 310: Equity, Justice & Sustainability

Teaching Assistant • Arizona State University

Spring 2023

SOS 111: Sustainable Cities

Teaching Assistant (Recitation) • Arizona State University

Fall 2022

SOS 220: Systems Thinking

Instructor of Record • Arizona State University

Summer 2022

Measuring City Sustainability

Grader • Arizona State University

Summer 2022

SOS 220: Systems Thinking

Teaching Assistant • Arizona State University

Spring 2022

SOS 110: Sustainable World

Teaching Assistant (Recitation) • Arizona State University

Fall 2021

Comparative Politics

Teaching Assistant • Seoul National University

Spring 2019

CV

Download my full curriculum vitae for a comprehensive overview of my academic journey, research, and publications.

Last updated: September 2026

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