Prosenjit (Jit) Bose

Associate Vice-President (Research); Chancellor’s Professor (School of Computer Science); (Co-Chair Academic)

Prosenjit (Jit) Bose is Associate Vice-President (Research) and a Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. He earned a Bachelor of Math and a Master of Math in Computer Science and Combinatorics from the University of Waterloo and a PhD in Computer Science from McGill University, where he received the D.W. Ambridge Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis. Following a Killam/NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, he held a faculty position at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières before joining Carleton. 

Bose is an internationally recognized researcher whose work spans computational geometry, data structures, algorithm design and analysis, randomized algorithms and graph theory. Over his career, he has authored more than 400 journal and conference publications and has received numerous awards recognizing both his research and teaching contributions.  

Bose has held several senior leadership positions at the university, including Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science, Graduate Director of the School of Computer Science, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) and Associate Dean (Research and International) in the Faculty of Science. Drawing on extensive experience with funding agencies, interdisciplinary collaboration, research partnerships and scholarly organizations, he is committed to strengthening and advancing Carleton University’s research enterprise.