Saurabh Khanna

Assistant Professor of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam

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University of Amsterdam

Nieuwe Achtergracht 166

1018 WV Amsterdam, NL



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. A selection of ongoing projects include:

  • (In)visible: developing methods to theorize, quantify, and boost invisible information
  • PictoPercept: capturing invisible biases through pairwise visual wikisurveys
  • Lost Without Translation: estimation and implications of invisible languages on the Internet
  • Shadowbans: Computational prediction of shadowbans and their implications
  • Beyond Words: Communication beyond the human species

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, plant-based cooking experiments, and playing sidekick to this angel.


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