Jose Magallanes
Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Magallanes is a computational social scientist and professor with nine years of focused experience building complex adaptive models to analyze social and policy systems. He directs social analytics institutes and teaches computational analytics and statistics across institutions including UMass Amherst, PUCP, and University of Washington, blending rigorous academic research with applied policy advising. His work spans agent-based modeling, network and spatial data representations, and crisis analytics—most notably advising Peru’s government on COVID-19 policy and vaccination strategies. Trained with a PhD in Computational Social Science and diverse certificates from institutions like Harvard Kennedy School and Carnegie Mellon, he pairs deep quantitative expertise with practical governance impact. Colleagues value his ability to translate computationally intensive models into actionable insights for decision makers.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Political Governance, Certificate, Political Governance at The George Washington UniversityMaster, Technology Management, Magna Cum Laude, Master, Technology Management, Magna Cum Laude at Universidad Nacional de IngenieríaDiploma, Computational Economics, Diploma, Computational Economics at Università degli Studi di TrentoCertificate, E- government, Certificate, E- government at Harvard University Kennedy School of GovernmentDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Psychology, Summa Cum Laude at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Social Science, Summa Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Social Science, Summa Cum Laude at George Mason UniversityUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Magister, Political Science, Magister, Political Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúCertificate, E- government, Certificate, E- government at National University of SingaporeCertificate, Computational Social Network Analysis, Certificate, Computational Social Network Analysis at Carnegie Mellon UniversityAgent Based Modeler in Repast, Agent Based Modelling, Agent Based Modeler in Repast, Agent Based Modelling at Argonne National Lab - University of Chicago
French, Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (65)
latex8
geopandas8
geographic8
spatial8
bookdown8
gitbook8
rmarkdown8
geospatial-visualization8
cpython7
epub7
geography7
python7
python-requests7
geospatial7
pandas6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Estadistica-AnalisisPolitico/Sesion7
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
PoliticayGobiernoPUCP/Gob_TomaDeDecisiones
Aug 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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