Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Director and Alvin H. Baum Family Fund Chair, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
ACES Distinguished Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Arshad, M. U., Archer, D., Wasonga, D., Namoi, N., Boe, A., Mitchell, R., Heaton, E., Khanna, M., & Lee, D. K. (2025). Comparative Economic Analysis Between Bioenergy and Forage Types of Switchgrass for Sustainable Biofuel Feedstock Production: A Data Envelopment Analysis and Cost–Benefit Analysis Approach. GCB Bioenergy, 17(2), Article e70020. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.70020

Khanna, M., Basso, B., O’Hara, J., Zilberman, D., & Hochman, G. (2025). Climate-smart biofuel policy as a pathway to decarbonize agriculture. Science, 389(6761), 687-689. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw6739

Kim, J., Behnke, G., Villamil, M., Khanna, M., Du, X., Miljkovic, N., Time, A., Bernacchi, C., Branham, B., & Lee, D. K. (2025). Shading impacts on sorghum and soybean grain yields in agrivoltaics systems: Source-sink strength in response to shading. Smart Agricultural Technology, 12, Article 101647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.101647

Wang, W., Blanc-Betes, E., Khanna, M., Jiang, C., Guan, K., Guest, J. S., Field, J. L., & DeLucia, E. H. (2025). Land conversion to energy crops for sustainable aviation fuel production reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Communications Earth and Environment, 6(1), Article 963. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02913-x

Bansal, S., & Khanna, M. (2024). Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivations and Effectiveness in Developing Countries. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 18(1-2), 123-164. https://doi.org/10.1561/101.00000165

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