Dr S. (Saurabh) Khanna

Assistant Professor of Communication Science

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

CW : Youth & Media Entertainment

Visiting address

Nieuwe Achtergracht 166

Postal address

Postbus 15791
1001 NG Amsterdam

Contact details

s.khanna@uva.nl

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About me
I am an Assistant Professor of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, and a Research Associate at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. My research is aimed at quantifying the limits of human knowledge in an increasingly digitized world. Some of my ongoing projects include:

quantifying diversity and incompleteness in information on the internet

studying diversity in global occupation imagery using Google Images and ILO reports

studying diversity in entertainment media using the IMDb corpus

scientometric analyses of communication and media studies

‘misinfotainment’ and the blurring lines between political and entertainment communication

I received my PhD in education policy (minor in computer science) from Stanford University, where I was a Human-centered AI Fellow, a Stanford Data Science Scholar, and a William R and Sara Hart Kimball Fellow. My prior background spans computer science engineering (BITS Pilani), economics (Stanford), and education (TISS). More here.
Publications
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

Loyalka, P., Mistree, D., Fairlie, R., & Khanna, S. (in press). Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India. Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Silverman, R. D., Hammond, E., Keane, K., & Khanna, S. (2024). The Effects of Educational Technology Interventions on Literacy in Elementary School: A Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research.

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.

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
Related datasets
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

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.
Prize / grant

Khanna, S., Helm, P., Eisele, O. & Schulz, K. (2025). Lost without Translation.

Ausloos, J., Leerssen, P. & Khanna, S. (2024). ARILS Methods and Interdisciplinary Research Fund.

Khanna, S. (2024). SoBe DSC 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.
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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