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David Aldous publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Aldous sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 207 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

David Aldous D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Aldous sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

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

  • Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs

    David Aldous;James Allen Fill

  • The Continuum Random Tree III

    David Aldous

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

    David J. Aldous

  • The Central Limit Theorem for Real and Banach Valued Random Variables

    David Aldous

  • Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic

    David Aldous

  • Random walks on finite groups and rapidly mixing Markov chains

    David J. Aldous

  • Shuffling Cards and Stopping Times

    David Aldous;Persi Diaconis

  • Representations for partially exchangeable arrays of random variables

    David J. Aldous

  • Stopping Times and Tightness. II

    David Aldous

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

    David Aldous;Persi Diaconis

  • Stochastic Analysis: The Continuum random tree II: an overview

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  • Processes on Unimodular Random Networks

    David J. Aldous;Russell Lyons

  • The Objective Method: Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization and Local Weak Convergence

    David Aldous;J. Michael Steele

  • The random walk construction of uniform spanning trees and uniform labelled trees

    David J. Aldous

  • On Mixing and Stability of Limit Theorems

    D. J. Aldous;G. K. Eagleson

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

    David J. Aldous

  • Strong uniform times and finite random walks

    David Aldous;Persi Diaconis

  • Brownian excursions, critical random graphs and the multiplicative coalescent

    David Aldous

  • The ζ (2) limit in the random assignment problem

    David J. Aldous

  • PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS ON CLADOGRAMS

    David Aldous

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Pitman
Jim Pitman University of California, Berkeley
Charles Bordenave
Charles Bordenave Aix-Marseille University
Marc Lelarge
Marc Lelarge École Normale Supérieure
Persi Diaconis
Persi Diaconis Stanford University
Russell Lyons
Russell Lyons Indiana University
Umesh Vazirani
Umesh Vazirani University of California, Berkeley
James Propp
James Propp University of Massachusetts Lowell
Colin McDiarmid
Colin McDiarmid University of Oxford
Boris Pittel
Boris Pittel The Ohio State University
Marc Barthelemy
Marc Barthelemy L'Institut de physique théorique

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