PermitAI Resources and Publications

June 2025

Rounak Meyur, Hung Phan, Koby Hayashi, Ian Stewart, Shivam Sharma, Sarthak Chaturvedi, Mike Parker, Dan Nally, Sadie Montgomery, Karl Pazdernik, Ali Jannesari, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Sai Munikoti, Sameera Horawalavithana, Anurag Acharya. 2025. Benchmarking LLMs for Environmental Review and Permitting. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Large Language Models for Scientific and Societal Advances (SciSoc LLM) at the 2025 ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (Accepted). Toronto, CA.

May 2025

Workshop Summary Report on Using AI Tools to Improve the Efficiency and Outcomes of the NEPA Process: AI for Permitting Workshop at the 2025 National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) Annual Conference. Download Workshop Report.

Horawalavithana S., and S.D. Koneru. 05/13/2025. "Data-Driven Autonomous Decision Making." Presented at the IAEA's Consultancy Meeting on the Use of AI and ML in Environmental Remediation and Clean-up Projects. International Atomic Energy Agency AI Consultancy Meeting. Vienna, Austria (Hybrid).

April 2025

Raab R.P. 04/30/2025. "CommentNEPA: Auditable, Agentic Workflows with Feedback Alignment for Environmental Review." NAEP 2025 Annual Conference & Training Symposium. Charleston, South Carolina.

Horawalavithana S. 04/29/2025. "Effective Use of AI in NEPA Decision Making Workflows." NAEP 2025 Annual Conference & Training Symposium. Charleston, South Carolina.

March 2025

Horawalavithana S., D.M. Nally, S. Munikoti, A. Bernat, and M.J. Parker. 03/11/2025. "Adopting AI Tools for Improving Permitting Outcomes and Efficiency." The Waste Management Conference. Phoenix, Arizona.

December 2024

Bernat A., S.N. Wagle, Y.S. Horawalavithana, S. Munikoti, S. Sharma, D.B. Lilienthal, and T.J. Vega, et al. "A GenAI Geospatial Web Application Charting NEPA Environmental Reviews." American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2024. Washington, D.C., December 2024.

November 2024

Horawalavithana S., S. Munikoti, S.D. Koneru, M.J. Parker, and D.M. Nally. 11/05/2024. "Accelerating Environmental Reviews with Automated Knowledge Synthesis Agents." The Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference (CLSAC). Annapolis, Maryland, November 2024.

Koneru S.D., S. Munikoti, and S. Horawalavithana. 11/06/2024. "Leveraging Large Language Model Agents to Mimic Human Multi-Step Decision-Making in Environmental Reviews." The Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference (CLSAC). Annapolis, Maryland.

Bernat A., S. Horawalavithana, and S. Munikoti. 11/01/2024. "Data Governance in the Age of "AI for Good"." International Atomic Energy Agency AI Consultancy Meeting. Vienna, Austria.

October 2024

Horawalavithana S. "Scaling Expertise in NEPA Environmental Reviews." Annual Seminar on Resource Planning for Electric Power Systems. Washington, DC. October 2024.

Bernat A., Y.S. Horawalavithana, S. Munikoti, D.M. Nally, S. Sharma, A. Acharya, and D.B. Lilienthal. 10/31/2024. "Digital Decommissioning: AI, Data Lakehousing and Web Technologies for Charting Nuclear Permitting Reviews." International Atomic Energy Agency AI Consultancy Meeting. Vienna, Austria. (Hybrid).

Sharma S., A. Bernat, S.N. Wagle, D.M. Nally, M.J. Parker, S. Munikoti, and S. Horawalavithana. 10/22/2024. "SearchNEPA: A GenAI-Powered NEPA Environmental Data Platform.” DOE Data Days. Livermore, California.

September 2024

Nally D.M. 09/17/2024. "Democratizing artificial intelligence for improving permitting outcomes and efficiency." Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Applications Workshops #5, AI Regulatory Framework Applicability Considerations. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD. September 2024

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