Rajendra Bose

Email: rkbose (at) me.com
Web: https://rkbose.me

Profile

Academic and Professional Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute; Jan 2025-present

Department of Math and Science

Teaching two sections of an in-person course introducing the science of light to arts and design students.

Director of Researcher Engagement, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Mar 2023-Jul 2024

Scientific Computing and Data

The Scientific Computing and Data group partnered with scientists to accelerate scientific discovery with the overarching goal of advancing translational research and improving clinical care. The researcher engagement role managed a team that ensured responsive support and communications, and served as a senior point of contact for researchers and staff, for selected research data services.

Principal Engineer, Scientific Computing, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub; Feb 2021-Mar 2022

Built and led the initial Scientific Computing team for this nonprofit biomedical research organization during its fifth anniversary year; he San Francisco Biohub partners are the University of California San Francisco and Berkeley, and Stanford University. Our team provided computation and research data storage infrastructure and guidance for computational microscopy, sequencing, data science and other scientific platforms and research groups at the Biohub's San Francisco and Stanford sites.

Director, Research Computing, Columbia University; Jan 2014-Dec 2020

Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

Responsible for developing and implementing research computing services and infrastructure for the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. The Research Computing team worked with 50 faculty labs and other groups with a population of roughly 800 researchers and other staff in the Zuckerman Institute to enable and accelerate their science.

Manager, Research Computing Services, Columbia University; Aug 2009-Dec 2013

Responsible for developing and advancing research computing services, and working with the Office of Research Initiatives and faculty, research and IT staff across the university. Activities included: implementing shared high performance computing and secure research data systems; defining strategies for biomedical and social science research computing; and carrying out green data center initiatives.

Digital Initiatives Manager, Columbia University; Jan 2008-Jul 2009

Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

Visiting Scientist, Columbia University; Jul-Oct 2007

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh; 2004-2007

United Kingdom Digital Curation Centre and Database Group, School of Informatics

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management (Environmental Informatics),
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Included research work at the Institute for Computational Earth System Science

University of California, Berkeley

M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Included applied Masters project work at University of Nottingham, England

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

B.E. in Electrical Engineering, with Honor

Included an academic year at University of Dundee, Scotland (International Scholars Program)
Included summer study at University of Oxford, England (International Graduate Summer School)

Professional and Academic Activities


(3-13-2025)