Dr S. (Saurabh) Khanna
Assistant Professor of Communication Science
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Youth & Media Entertainment
Area of expertise: information theory, machine learning, open science
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: C10.13
Postal address
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Postbus 15791
1001 NG Amsterdam
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Profile
I study the diversity and limits of human knowledge as an Assistant Professor of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD in Education Policy & Computer Science from Stanford University, where I was a Human-centered AI Fellow, a Data Science Scholar, and a William R and Sara Hart Kimball Fellow. My prior background spans Economics at Stanford, Computer Science at BITS Pilani, and Education at TISS. More here.
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Publications
- refereed (12)
- academic (3)
- conference contributions (2)
- recognitions (9)
- doctoral thesis (1)
- datasets (1)
2025
- Fairlie, R., Khanna, S., Loyalka, P., & Sachdeva, G. (in press). Affirmative action, faculty productivity and caste interactions: Evidence from engineering colleges in India. Journal of Political Economy.
- Loyalka, P., Mistree, D., Fairlie, R., & Khanna, S. (2025). Job training, English language skills, and employability: Evidence from an experiment in urban India. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 73, 2131-2156. https://doi.org/10.1086/734458
- Silverman, R. D., Keane, K., Hammond, E., & Khanna, S. (2025). The Effects of Educational Technology Interventions on Literacy in Elementary School: A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research, 95(5), 972-1012. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543241261073 [details]
2024
- Giebel, S., Khanna, S., Marbach, L., & Soysal, Y. (2024). Defining Diversity Discourse in Global Higher Education: Computationally Comparing India, the UK, and Germany. In American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Montreal
2023
- Ulitzsch, E., Khanna, S., Rhemtulla, M., & Domingue, B. W. (2023). A graph theory based similarity metric enables comparison of subpopulation psychometric networks. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000625
2022
- Khanna, S., Ball, J., Alperin, J. P., & Willinsky, J. (2022). Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing: A modest step in a vast decolonization process. Quantitative Science Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00228
- Loyalka, P., Shi, Z., Li, G., Kardanova, E., Chirikov, I., Yu, N., Hu, S., Wang, H., Ma, L., Guo, F., Liu, O. L., Bhuradia, A., Khanna, S., Li, Y., & Murray, A. (2022). The effect of faculty research on student learning in college. Educational Researcher, 51, 265-273. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X221090229
2021
- Loyalka, P., Liu, O. L., Li, G., Kardanova, E., Chirikov, I., Hu, S., Yu, N., Ma, L., Guo, F., Beteille, T., Tognatta, N., Gu, L., Ling, G., Federiakin, D., Wang, H., Khanna, S., Bhuradia, A., Shi, Z., & Li, Y. (2021). Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 892-904. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01062-3
- McFarland, D. A., Khanna, S., Domingue, B. W., & Pardos, Z. A. (2021). Education Data Science: Past, Present, Future. AERA Open, 7, 23328584211052055. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211052055
2020
- Silverman, R. D., Johnson, E., Keane, K., & Khanna, S. (2020). Beyond Decoding: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Language Comprehension Interventions on K–5 Students’ Language and Literacy Outcomes. Reading Research Quarterly, 55, S207-S233. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.346
2019
- Loyalka, P., Liu, O. L., Li, G., Chirikov, I., Kardanova, E., Gu, L., Ling, G., Yu, N., Guo, F., Ma, L., Hu, S., Johnson, A. S., Bhuradia, A., Khanna, S., Froumin, I., Shi, J., Choudhury, P. K., Beteille, T., Marmolejo, F., & Tognatta, N. (2019). Computer science skills across China, India, Russia, and the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(14), 6732-6736. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814646116
2017
- Khanna, S. (2017). Through the Sociological Lens: Learning Mathematics in a Mumbai Classroom. For the Learning of Mathematics, 37, 24-26.
2025
Khanna, S. (2025). Knowing Unknowns in an Age of Information Overload. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.10413 [details]- Khanna, S. (2025). Invisible Information Website. Web publication or website https://theinvisiblelab.org/
- Khanna, S., & Li, X. (2025). Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe. (v2 ed.) ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.11557 [details]
2026
- Khanna, S. (2026). Picturing Perceptions: An Open-Source Toolkit to Uncover Bias in Humans and Machines. Paper presented at 76 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Khanna, S., & Zhou, D. (2026). Banned from Detecting Shadowbans. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2026, Papendal, Netherlands.
Prize / grant
- Khanna, S., Helm, P., Eisele, O. & Schulz, K. (2025). Lost without Translation.
- Khanna, S. (2025). Responsible AI Innovation Grant.
- Khanna, S., Eisele, O., Helm, P. & Schulz, K. (2025). Fair and Resilient Societies Midsize Grant.
- Ausloos, J., Leerssen, P. & Khanna, S. (2024). ARILS Methods and Interdisciplinary Research Fund.
- Khanna, S. (2024). SoBe DSC Valorization Grant.
- Khanna, S. (2024). ASCoR Collaborative Grant.
- Khanna, S. (2024). Social and Behavioural Data Science Centre Valorization Grant.
- Khanna, S., van Driel, I., Sumter, S., Billedo, C., Taylor, L. & Eisele, O. (2024). Digicom Lab Seed Grant.
- Khanna, S., Eisele, O., Billedo, C., Taylor, L., Tulin, M., van Hoof, M., Jacobs, S., Brugman, B. & Meppelink, C. (2024). ASCoR Collaborative Grant.
2023
- Khanna, S. (2023). Diversity, learning, and knowledge: A study across institutions. [Thesis, fully external, Stanford University]. Stanford University. https://purl.stanford.edu/zn685df3950
2024
- Khanna, S., Raoni, J., Smecher, A., Alperin, J., Ball, J. & Willinsky, J. (2024). Details of publications using software by the Public Knowledge Project. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OCZNVY
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Khanna, S. (2025). Knowing Unknowns in an Age of Information Overload. ArXiv.