Jose Zagal is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has an M.Sc. in engineering sciences and a B.S. in industrial engineering from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. His research interests include the use of online communities for collaborative learning and the development of frameworks for describing, analyzing, and understanding games. He is a member of the Electronic Learning Communities Lab and the Experimental Game Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. In his free time he loves to design and play games.