2026 David Aldous: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	61	502	423	263	207	207	20728

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Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
1993 - Wald Memorial Lecturer

Overview

David Aldous is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with notable subfields including Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research work covers several main topics, including:

Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
Data Management and Algorithms
Sports Analytics and Performance
Algorithms and Data Compression
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Point processes and geometric inequalities

Recent publications by David Aldous include:

On the Largest Common Subtree of Random Leaf-Labeled Binary Trees, 2022, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Parking on the infinite binary tree, 2023, Probability Theory and Related Fields
The harmonic descent chain, 2024, Electronic Communications in Probability
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, 2022, The Mathematical Intelligencer
The critical beta-splitting random tree I: Heights and related results, 2025, The Annals of Applied Probability

Frequent coauthors with whom David Aldous has collaborated include:

Nicolas Curien
Svante Janson
Madelyn Cruz
Feng Shi
Alice Contat

The scientist's published work appears regularly in several prominent venues, such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Electronic Communications in Probability
The Mathematical Intelligencer
Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Notices of the American Mathematical Society

David Aldous has received multiple recognitions, including:

Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 1994
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
Wald Memorial Lecturer, 1993

Best Publications

Exchangeability and related topics

David J. Aldous

2240
Citations
Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs

David Aldous;James Allen Fill

1389
Citations
The Continuum Random Tree III

David Aldous

935
Citations
Deterministic and stochastic models for coalescence (aggregation and coagulation): a review of the mean-field theory for probabilists

David J. Aldous

871
Citations
The Central Limit Theorem for Real and Banach Valued Random Variables

David Aldous

870
Citations
Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic

David Aldous

732
Citations
Random walks on finite groups and rapidly mixing Markov chains

David J. Aldous

706
Citations
Shuffling Cards and Stopping Times

David Aldous;Persi Diaconis

684
Citations
Representations for partially exchangeable arrays of random variables

David J. Aldous

572
Citations
Stopping Times and Tightness. II

David Aldous

545
Citations
Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson theorem

David Aldous;Persi Diaconis

528
Citations
Stochastic Analysis: The Continuum random tree II: an overview

Unknown

519
Citations
Processes on Unimodular Random Networks

David J. Aldous;Russell Lyons

507
Citations
The Objective Method: Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization and Local Weak Convergence

David Aldous;J. Michael Steele

453
Citations
The random walk construction of uniform spanning trees and uniform labelled trees

David J. Aldous

417
Citations
On Mixing and Stability of Limit Theorems

D. J. Aldous;G. K. Eagleson

393
Citations
Stochastic models and descriptive statistics for phylogenetic trees, from Yule to today

David J. Aldous

386
Citations
Strong uniform times and finite random walks

David Aldous;Persi Diaconis

373
Citations
Brownian excursions, critical random graphs and the multiplicative coalescent

David Aldous

358
Citations
The ζ (2) limit in the random assignment problem

David J. Aldous

323
Citations
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS ON CLADOGRAMS

David Aldous

284
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Pitman University of California, Berkeley

Charles Bordenave Aix-Marseille University

Marc Lelarge École Normale Supérieure

Persi Diaconis Stanford University

Russell Lyons Indiana University

Umesh Vazirani University of California, Berkeley

James Propp University of Massachusetts Lowell

Colin McDiarmid University of Oxford

Boris Pittel The Ohio State University

Marc Barthelemy L'Institut de physique théorique

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