David Aldous

David John Aldous FRS is an American mathematician specializing in probability theory and its applications, known for research on exchangeability, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree, and stochastic coalescence. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently serves as an affiliate professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Washington. He was the first winner of the Loève Prize in probability and is a fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.