Ilesanmi Adeboye's research interests lie in the intersection of geometry, topology, and analysis, with a focus on the study of area and volume in non-Euclidean geometries. He has published articles on hyperbolic geometry, complex hyperbolic geometry, and projective geometry. 

Ilesanmi Adeboye earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Before arriving at Wesleyan he held visiting professorships at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa Barbara.