THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
I am Junsol Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago, advised by James Evans, and a student researcher at Google. Previously, I received my M.A. in Sociology, B.A. in Sociology, and B.S. in Computer Science at Yonsei University, and I worked as a machine learning engineer at Kakao.
I study how AI and other social technologies bridge or deepen cultural and political divides in human societies, and their implications for information and knowledge ecosystems. I use experiments and computational methods, alongside sociological theories of knowledge, culture, and cognition. My work has appeared in Nature Communications, PNAS, ICLR, ICML, and EMNLP, among others.
Recent Research / Recent Publications
Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, James Evans. (2025). “Differential impact from individual versus collective misinformation tagging on the diversity of Twitter (X) information engagement and mobility.” Nature Communications, 16(1), 973.
Junsol Kim, James Evans, Aaron Schein. “Linear Representations of Political Ideology Emerge in Large Language Models.” Proceedings of the ICLR 2025 (Oral).
Shiyang Lai, Yujin Potter, Junsol Kim, Richard Zhuang, Dawn Song, James Evans. (2024). “Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation.” Proceedings of the ICML 2024 (pp. 25892-25912).
Yujin Potter, Shiyang Lai, Junsol Kim, James Evans, Dawn Song. (2024). “Hidden Persuaders: LLMs’ Political Leaning and Their Influence on Voters.” Proceedings of the EMNLP 2024 (pp. 4244-4275).
Junsol Kim, Zhao Wang, Haohan Shi, Hsin-Keng Ling, James Evans (2023). "Individual misinformation tagging reinforces echo chambers; Collective tagging does not." arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.11282.
Junsol Kim, Byungkyu Lee (2023). "AI-Augmented Surveys: Leveraging Large Language Models for Opinion Prediction in Nationally Representative Surveys." arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09620.
Yoosik Youm, Junsol Kim, Seyul Kwak and Jeanyung Chey. (2021). “Neural and Social Correlates of Attitudinal Brokerage: Using the Complete Social Networks of Two Entire Villages.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1944), 20202866.
Yoosik Youm, Byungkyu Lee, Junsol Kim. (2021). “A Measure of Centrality in Cyclic Diffusion Processes: Walk-Betweenness.” PLoS ONE, 16(1), e0245476.
Ryan Hyon, Yoosik Youm, Junsol Kim, Jeanyung Chey, Seyul Kwak, Carolyn Parkinson. (2020). "Similarity in functional brain connectivity at rest predicts interpersonal closeness in the social network of an entire village." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(52), 33149-33160.