Sunil Kumar Chebolu

Sunil Kumar Chebolu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Illinois State University, holding an adjunct research position at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He specializes in Algebra, Number Theory, and Modular Representation Theory, with research focusing on topics like ghost maps, Tate Cohomology, and derived categories of rings. His academic journey includes a B.Stat (1998) and M.Stat (2000) from the Indian Statistical Institute, followed by a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Washington (2005). He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Western Ontario under Jan Minac and Dan Christensen.

He has received notable grants including the NSA Young Investigator Award and a Simons Collaboration Grant. Chebolu actively collaborates, co-organizing sessions like the 2024 AMS Spring Central Sectional on algebraic methods in graph theory. His interdisciplinary interests span physics, astronomy, and computing, viewed through a mathematical lens.