David J. Aldous

• Born: 13 July 1952
• Education:
  • B.A. (Mathematics) 1973, Cambridge University
  • Ph. D. (Mathematics) 1977, Cambridge University.
• Employment:
  • St. John's College, Cambridge. Research Fellow 1977-1979.
  • Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.
    • Assistant Professor 1979-1982
    • Associate Professor 1982-1986
    • Professor 1986 - present.
    • Chair 1997 - 1999.
• Awards, etc:
  • Rollo Davidson Prize 1980
  • I.M.S. (= Institute of Mathematical Statistics) Fellow 1985
  • Loeve Prize in Probability 1993
  • Fellow of the Royal Society 1994
  • Sc. D. (Honorary), University of Chicago, 2000
  • Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
  • A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, 2004 -- .
  • Research supported by N.S.F., 1979 - present.
• Invited talks:
  • Invited Speaker, Ecole d'Ete St Flour 1983
  • Special Invited Speaker, Conference on Stochastic Processes, 1979, 1988.
  • I.M.S. Special Invited Lecturer 1982, 1988
  • I.M.S. Wald Lecturer 1993.
  • Invited speaker I.C.M. Berlin 1998.
  • Mordell Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 2001
  • Kolmogorov Lecturer, 6th Bernoulli Society Congress, 2004
• Professional service:
  • I.M.S. Council 1987-1989
  • N.S.F. Review Panel in Probability (3 years)
  • MSRI Scientific Advisory Committee 2006 - present
  • Associate Editor:
    Annals of Probability 1982-1987, 1994 - 2000; Annals of Applied Probability 1989-1996; J. Math. Analysis 1986-1991; J. Theoretical Probability 1988 - 1995; Electronic J. Probability 1995-present, Random Structures and Algorithms 2001 - present.
  • Editor: Probability Surveys 2004 - present.