Jose Manuel Magallanes is a Visiting Professor of Computational Public Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance since Mid 2015.  Jose Manuel appointment is funded by the University of Washington’s eScience Institute thanks to the Washington Research Fund,  the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where he is  a Senior Data Science Fellow.

Professor Magallanes has two Doctoral degrees. One in Computational Social Science from George Mason University, and another one in Psychology from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He also holds a Master degree in Political Science and Public Management  from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has received multidisciplinary training on computational approaches on governance matters from University Michigan (ICPSR), National University of Australia, National University of Singapore (ISS), University of Chicago (Argonne NL), Carnegie Mellon University (CASOS), and Harvard Kennedy School.