Research

Order theory traditionally studies combinatorial properties of partially ordered sets. Using operad theory, I study objects that share endomorphisms with posets. Since this is reasearch at the basis of mathematics, my results propagate to number theory, dendroidal homotopy theory and machine learning (so far). From the point of view of operad theory: In the paper ``An algebra ...'' we define the action of the operad of series parallel posets on a family of power series and on order polytopes. In the paper ``A poset version ...'' we extended the action of the operad of series parallel posets on power series, to an action of the operad of finite posets. We then introduced an action of the operad of finite posets to zeta values. In "Shuffle series" we apply the theory developed to solve a problem related to the tensor product of operads. In "Order theory in ..." we prove that posets and order polytopes are isomorphic as algebras over the operad of posets, and we define a set of neural networks that are an algebra over the operad of posets. The paper "Operad of posets 101..." is expository, it focuses on a suboperad of the operad of posets, for which we can transfer topological information among its algebras.

Papers

  • "Operad of posets 101 : The Wixarika posets" 2026 publication link, arxiv link, with Jose Antonio Arciniega-Nevarez and Marko Berghoff. Special Issue on Pakistani Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam, Journal of Prime Research in Mathematics. This is an expository paper. An old version of these notes were used to give a minicourse in Govt. College University Lahore in Pakistan 2022, and at the BIRS-CMO workshop “6th meeting of the Mexican Mathematicians in the World” 2024.
  • "Topological Deep Learning Challenge 2025: Expanding the Data Landscape" 2026 publication link. Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Data Science(TAG-DS 2025), at Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. This is a paper describing the result of a deep learning challenge. My participation on the challenge consisted on designing a new dataset loader in TopoBench for the dataset WS1000_gamma, defined in "Revisiting the necessity of graph learning and common graph benchmarks". The dataset is quite important, as the aforementioned paper's example that for some graph datasets, the features may already include topological information, therefore a nn trained on the features can compete with a graph nn.
  • "Shuffle series" 2025 publication link, arxiv link, with Khushdil Ahmad and Khurram Shabbir. Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics. We apply the theory of algebras over the operad of posets to solve a problem in enumerative combinatorics. The tensor product of free tree operads can be understood in terms of shuffles of trees, and we explain how to count shuffles between an arbitrary tree and a linear tree. We show that under some conditions, every property of a poset induces three series. We conjecture that every combinatorial experiment related to order, is part of a triple of combinatorial problems.
  • "Polychrony as Chinampas" 2023 publication link, arxiv link, with Jose Antonio Arciniega-Nevarez, Anh Nguyen, Yitong Zou, Luke Van Popering, Nathan Crock, Gordon Erlebacher and Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes. Algorithms. In this paper we study signal-flow graphs with a nonlinear condition on the vertices. examplechinampa Put double rings on some integer lattice points in the first quadrant of the cartesian plane. From bottom to top, left to right, if coordinate (x,y) and (x,y+1) are have any circles, then put a simple circle on (x+1,y+1). What you obtain is a chinampa. To count certain polycrhony groups we introduce the theory of chinampas and study their enumeration problem.
  • "An algebra over the operad of posets and structural binomial identities" 2022 publication link, arxiv link, with Jose Antonio Arciniega-Nevarez and Marko Berghoff. Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. In this paper we study series parallel posets as an algebra over an operad of posets. In our theory, the associativity of concatenation introduces new identities of binomial coefficients.
  • I'm coauthor of "Growth of (Re, Pb)-Ca-Ba-Cu-Ag-O Precursor films by spray Pyrolysis Technique", published at the Symposium Solar Cells \& Solar Energy Materials, XIV International Materials Research Congress 2005, Abstracts Book p. 32.

Translations/ Book chapters / Ebooks

Preprints

  • "CheMLFlow: An Open-Source Platform for Cheminformatics and Materials Informatics Applications" link, with Brendan Smith, Susana Lopez-Moreno, Sangil Kim, Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes, and Nijamudheen Abdulrahiman. We propose a ML pipeline compatible with agentic coding. This project is a step towards reducing the reproducibility problem in science and reducing problems with the use of AI agents. While focused on Cheminformatics, it can be applied to other areas of AI.

  • "PCA-Enhanced Adaptive NVAR Framework for High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Forecasting in the East Sea" link, with Azimov Sherkhon, Susana Lopez-Moreno, JinYong Choi, and Sangil Kim. We modify our Adaptive-NVAR to estimate sea surface temperature.

  • "Adaptive Nonlinear Vector Autoregression, Robust Forecasting for Noisy Chaotic Time Series" link, with Azimov Sherkhon, Susana Lopez-Moreno, Sieun Lee, and Sangil Kim. We create a neural network (based on NVAR) to estimate time series from caotic dynamical systems with noise.

  • "Standardization of Post-Publication Code Verification by Journals is Possible with the Support of the Community" link, with Susana Lopez-Moreno and Sangil Kim. To fight the reproducibility problem in machine learning we explore a pipeline for post-publication code verification that involves journals, reviewers, students/researchers and job interviewers.

  • "Order Theory in the Context of Machine Learning" link, with Aldo Guzman-Saenz, Sangil Kim, Susana Lopez-Moreno, and Jose Mendoza-Cortes. We conect order theory with ML, discovering new pooling filters that sometimes outperform max pooling, average pooling, and mix pooling.
  • "A poset version of Ramanujan results on Eulerian numbers and zeta values" link, with Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes. Consider the decomposition of a cube into 6 pyramids. When we put them togeter, we double count 6 triangles, and when we remove those triangles, we had to return a line. This leads to an inclussion exclusion formula cube=6pyramids-6triangles+1line. From that formula we describe an identity among zeta values. We then show that this process: decomposition of polytopes-> identities with zeta values is true for order polytopes of posets. This is generalization of an identity by Ramanujan and our techniques compute new rational zeta series.
  • "The gold partition conjecture and the Lexicographic sum of posets" link, with Aldo Guzmán-Sáenz and Sangil Kim. If a finite poset Q satisfies the Gold Partition Conjecture, and P is a finite poset, then for any i in P the lexicographic sum of P with Q on the point i, satisfies the Gold Partition Conjecture.
  • "Convergence of Taylor Series of real normed division algebras". link. In this paper we demonstrate how to extend the Cauchy-Hadamard theorem to quaternionic analysis; the methods allowed us to prove a couple of Abel's theorems about convergence of (hyperholomorphic) series and to find a bigger region of convergence than the standard sphere.

Open problems

Others

  • Consultation with the Department of Geography at FSU: Organized and hosted bimonthly meetings to discuss possible ML projects with geographical data.
I have spent time learning about; non-commutativity and analysis with Dr. Shapiro Fishman (R.I.P.), Homotopy and categories with Dr. Lupercio Lara, and Operads
with Dr. Dmitry Tamarkin. I am intrigued by the theory of Drinfeld associators, so I organized a seminar called
“Associators, Formality and Invariants” where I talked about EK-quantization of Lie bi-algebras, Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and formality,
among other topics. “Associators, Formality and Invariants” Seminar at Northwestern University.
Below are some notes from the seminar. Notes from Dr. Licata's course : Braid group actions from representation theory).
My own notes on A infinity algebras.
My own notes on Genus-zero TQFTs and operads.