Research interests:

1. Statistical Machine learning

2. Computational Social Choice

3. AI safety

 Preprints and Publications :

1.  S.Sana, Daniel Brous, M.T Wells, Moon Duchin (2025), Quantitative Relaxations of Arrow's Axioms. [Arxiv ], Submitted to IJCAI

2. S.Sana (2024) A scalar matching factor on the Birkhoff polytope characterizing permutation and uniform matrices [Arxiv]

3.   J.Chang, L.Piff, S.Sana, J.X. Li, L.Levine (2025)  EigenBench:  A Comparative Behavioral Measure of Value Alignment   (2026) [Arxiv], Accepted at ICLR 2026.  

4. S.Sana,  Jinzhou Wu, M.T  Wells (2026) Democratic Preference Optimization  [Arxiv],

Awards and Honors :

1. NSF Travel Award, IISA,2024 ($500)

2. Cornell Graduate research travel grant for studying elections in India  ($1300)

3. Department research travel grant ($1800, Travel to Vienna, Cornell, 2024)

4. Graduate travel grant ($700, Travel to South Korea), Cornell, 2022.

5. Cornell PhD Graduate Fellowship (Academic year 2021-2022)

6. 6.NBHM Master scholarship (2019-20), Government of India.

7. 7.All India Rank (AIR)-3 in M.STAT entrance of ISI (2019)

8. 8.All India Rank (AIR)-33 in IIT JAM ,Mathematical statistics (2019)

9. Awarded prize money for outstanding performance and being in top 3 in semester - 1 , semester - 3, and semester - 5 of B.MATH program at ISI.