Samarth Khanna | Pennsylvania State University

About Me

I am pursuing my Ph.D. in Informatics at The Pennsylvania State University. I work with Professor Hadi Hosseini in the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Lab (FAIR) on Algorithms to solve various problems in Computational Social Choice, Multi-agent interactions, and Game Theory. Currently, I am working on evaluating the social and economic behavior of Large Language Models.

Before Penn State, I worked as a Software Developer (June 2022 to July 2023) with Anchanto Pte Ltd., where I was responsible for writing the Back-end, Data Pipelines, and for building Machine Learning-based services such as Product Matching and Text Analysis. Prior to that, I completed my B.Tech. in Computer Science and Technology from IIEST, Shibpur in 2022.

On a personal note, I’m into reading, theater, and debating. I’ve also played a number of sports and I always enjoy playing anything new.

News

[April 2025] Won the Best Poster Award at PSU AI-Week 2025!
[Aug 2023] Started my Ph.D. at Penn State.
[Jun. 2023] My Bachelors thesis got accepted to MAISoN 2023 (hosted at IJCAI 2023)!

Publications

Under review

Fair Like Us? Auditing LLM Alignment in Resource Allocation

Samarth Khanna, Sujoy Sikdar, Joshua Kavner, Hadi Hosseini, Qishen Han, Lirong Xia

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Who Gets the Kidney? Human-AI Alignment, Indecision, and Moral Values

John P. Dickerson, Hadi Hosseini, Samarth Khanna, Leona Pierce

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Matching Markets Meet LLMs: Algorithmic Reasoning with Ranked Preferences

Hadi Hosseini, Samarth Khanna, Ronak Singh

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Bridging Theory and Perception in Fair Division: A Study on Comparative and Fair Share Notions

Hadi Hosseini, Joshua Kavner, Samarth Khanna, Sujoy Sikdar, Lirong Xia

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Distributive Fairness in Large Language Models: Evaluating Alignment with Human Values

Hadi Hosseini, Samarth Khanna

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MAISoN @ IJCAI 2023

Link Prediction for Social Networks using Representation Learning and Heuristic-based Features

Samarth Khanna, Sree Bhattacharyya, Sudipto Ghosh, Kushagra Agarwal, Asit Kumar Das

9th International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (2023)

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CIPR 2020

A Comparative Study of Various Text Classification Methods

Samarth Khanna, Bishnu Tiwari, Priyanka Das, Asit Kumar Das

2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition

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