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Dr S. (Saurabh) Khanna

Assistant Professor of Communication Science
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Youth & Media Entertainment
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  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
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  • Postbus 15791
    1001 NG Amsterdam
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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
    • 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. (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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