Krishna Chebolu
Last updated: September 2026
About Me
I am a doctoral student in applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. I enjoy running, reading, and restoring my old Honda.
Research Interests
- Modeling: numerical methods, uncertainty analysis
- PDEs: computational fluid dynamics, bifurcation theory
- Applications: control, optimization
News
- Aug. 2026: Moved to and started my PhD program at Boulder!
- May 2026: Internship at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
- May 2026: Graduated from Mizzou!
- Apr. 2026: Successfully defended my master's thesis! Advised by Dr. Sam Walsh.
- Dec. 2025: Created a Substack.
- May 2025: Internship at NASA under Dr. Marian Nemec and Michael Aftosmis.
- Mar. 2025: Attended AMS Sectional meeting at KU.
- Aug. 2024: Started my master's degree at Mizzou. Go Tigers!
- Jun. 2024: Researching in MIT's Summer Geometry Initiative.
- May 2024: Summer REU in computational cancer genomics at WashU under Dr. Kelly Bolton.
- May 2024: Graduated from Truman State University!
- Apr. 2024: Bought my first car: 1995 Honda Accord LX.
Technical Works
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AMS
American Mathematical Society Central Sectional Meeting (AMS), 2024.PDF Capstone presentation Oral Presentation -
Mizzou
MOspace at MU, 2026.
PAPERS
NOTES
- Graduate Real Analysis; follows the popular text by Folland
- Undergraduate Real Analysis; follows "Introduction to Real Analysis" by Bartle and Sherbert
- Undergraduate Abstract Algebra; follows the free online textbook "Abstract Algebra" by Judson
- Graduate Ordinary Differential Equations; follows "Ordinary Differential Equations" by Petrovski
WRITING
- What it Takes to Get a SLAM Dunk, Part II
- What it Takes to Get a SLAM Dunk, Part I
- A Deeper Understanding OpenAI’s CLIP Model
- An SGI to SGI 2024
- The Symposium on Geometry Processing 2024 – A Recap
Creative
SUBSTACK
- I visted Denali National Park!
- I summited Holy Mountain!
- I visted the Twin Lakes!
- Trying fishing and doing the Tanalian ridge trail!
- I climbed Tanalian Mountain, finally.
- I finally got my badge!
- More training, reading, and hiking!
- First week of work at Lake Clark!
- Landing in the 49th state
- I just read Siddhartha
- Amusing ourselves further
- An incestuous algorithm
- On documenting a life
- An argument for why you should stop doom-scrolling
BOOKS READ
2026
- The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales (current)
- How the Mountains Grew by John Dvorak
- The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
- Tracking of the Grizzly by Frank Craighead Jr.
- Interpreting Our Heritageby Freeman Tilden
- Scatted All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur Clarke
- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
- Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Guide by R. K. Narayan
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
2025
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu; translated by Thomas Huynh
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe
- Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Evolution of Charles Darwin by Diana Preston
- Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska
- The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
- What it Takes to Get a SLAM Dunk, Part II
- What it Takes to Get a SLAM Dunk, Part I
- A Deeper Understanding OpenAI’s CLIP Model
- An SGI to SGI 2024
- The Symposium on Geometry Processing 2024 – A Recap
Creative
SUBSTACK
- I visted Denali National Park!
- I summited Holy Mountain!
- I visted the Twin Lakes!
- Trying fishing and doing the Tanalian ridge trail!
- I climbed Tanalian Mountain, finally.
- I finally got my badge!
- More training, reading, and hiking!
- First week of work at Lake Clark!
- Landing in the 49th state
- I just read Siddhartha
- Amusing ourselves further
- An incestuous algorithm
- On documenting a life
- An argument for why you should stop doom-scrolling
BOOKS READ
2026
- The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales (current)
- How the Mountains Grew by John Dvorak
- The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester
- Tracking of the Grizzly by Frank Craighead Jr.
- Interpreting Our Heritageby Freeman Tilden
- Scatted All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur Clarke
- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
- Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Guide by R. K. Narayan
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
2025
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu; translated by Thomas Huynh
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe
- Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Evolution of Charles Darwin by Diana Preston
- Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska
- The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
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