Jose Perea received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Universidad del Valle in 2006 and his PhD in mathematics from Stanford University in 2011. After a few years as a postdoc in the Department of Mathematics at Duke and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, he joined Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in 2014 with a joint appointment in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering and the Department of Mathematics. He moved to Northeastern in Fall 2021 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
His work has been supported by grants from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Science Foundation, the Center for Business and Social Analytics, and a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.