His current research explores how to structure accounting and auditing institutions to obtain an efficient balance between regulatory oversight and market competition.

Before moving to the United States, Sunder was educated at IIT Kharagpur, Indian Railways School of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering at Jamalpur.

Sunder has published six books, including Theory of Accounting and Control,[3] and over 200 articles in academic journals and popular media.

He was named a Distinguished Lecturer at the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the University of Essex in the UK.

[16] He has served on the editorial boards of Experimental Economics,[1] the Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory[1] and was the President of the editorial board of The Accounting Review[17] Sunder has taught generation of students both in Yale College and Yale School of Management.