Noah Kahn

Noah Khan is a fourth-year PhD candidate at University of Toronto inquiring into the affective dynamics of artificial intelligence development. Concurrently, Noah is a Recognised Student at the Oxford Internet Institute in Social Data Science and a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University in American Studies. Studying product managers, organizational culture leaders, data annotators, and beta testers across a firm's offices in India, the US, Canada, and the UK, his dissertation research examines how emotion at individual, organizational, and cultural levels influences outcomes in platform functionality and governability in the private sector. In parallel, Noah has conducted several similar projects in the migrant welfare sector of civil society across South Asia. In his projects, Noah employs large-scale surveys, arts-based interviews, and ethnographic methods.

To date, Noah has been granted over $300,000 for his research and scholarship. He is presently a Junior Fellow at Massey College and Victoria College, a Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher, an R. F. Harney Graduate Research Fellow, a Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellow, and an Inlight Graduate Research Fellow, inter alia. Outside of academia, Noah has been a professional video game player, reaching rank one out of millions in League of Legends, and a ghostwriter, having written chart-topping songs in genres such as rap, hip hop, and R&B.