Eunji Emily Kim

Eunji Emily Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), based in Washington, D.C. She studies how society adapts to the rise of artificial intelligence, examining changes and responses across political, institutional, and public spheres. Her work spans the analysis of legislative texts, social media discourse, bibliometric data on research directions, and AI incident reports to understand how different actors interpret and respond to AI under conditions of uncertainty. Combining computational social science, natural language processing, and qualitative analysis, she investigates the narratives, decisions, and policy actions that shape societal adaptation to emerging technologies.

Emily earned her Ph.D. in Public Policy and M.S. in Statistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.A. in Political Science and International Affairs from Seoul National University, and a B.A. in Political Science and International Trade from SungKyunKwan University. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Future Initiatives and previously served as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP), contributing to national R&D policy coordination and evaluation initiatives.

Plans for Fellowship: During the fellowship, Emily will prepare journal articles based on the chapters of her doctoral dissertation, which analyzes U.S. state legislation on artificial intelligence using computational text analysis to examine patterns in policy content, diffusion, and framing. She will also publish results from ongoing projects, including studies of AI incident reports, bibliometric analyses of AI-related research trends, and social media discourse, to broaden understanding of how different sectors respond to emerging technologies.