Saurabh Khanna

I am an Assistant Professor in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Pembroke College). I lead research at theinvisiblelab.org where we leverage machine learning and information retrieval to study both the diversity and the limits of human knowledge in an increasingly digitized world. Ongoing projects include:

• (In)visible: developing methods to theorize, quantify, and boost invisibility in digital information
• PictoPercept: innovating bias assessment through pairwise visual wikisurveys
• Lost Without Translation: estimating invisible languages on the Internet
• Studying diversity in global occupation imagery using Google Images and ILO reports
• Scientometric analyses of communication and media studies

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.

I am fond of exploring unorthodox films from diverse cultures, cooking experiments, and playing sidekick to this angel.