Chris Fields Research
Description: Welcome to my website! While I was thinking about the point at infinity... (photo by Maryam Bagherian) My name is Emanuele Zappala and I am currently an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Idaho State University. I have been an Associate Research Scientist (ladder-track faculty), and a Postdoc at Yale…
Emanuele Zappala
My name is Emanuele Zappala. I currently am an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University , where I am working on machine learning, under the mentorship of David van Dijk . Before that, I have been Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Tartu , in Estonia, where my research was funded by the Estonian Research Council, through the Mobilitas Pluss scheme, research grant number MOBJD679. During this period I have collaborated with Viktor Abramov . I have been research fellow at the Universit
My main research interests lie in pure and applied mathematics. In pure mathematics I am interested in geometric topology and (non-associative) algebra, especially quantum and cocycle invariants of knots and manifolds, quantum algebra, as well as self-distributive cohomologies of higher arity operations. In applied mathematics I am interested in (quantum) machine learning, computational biology and theoretical physics. In particular, I am interested in applications of (quantum) topology to these fields.
Chris Fields Research