Aaron Clauset is an American computer scientist who works in the areas of Network Science, Machine Learning, and Complex Systems.
He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder and is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
In other work, Clauset is known for his specific discovery, with Maxwell Young and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, that the frequency and severity of terrorist events worldwide follows a power-law distribution.
In January 2020, Clauset's work on scale-free networks and the distribution of terrorist events garnered public attention after two of his papers were cited in the blog of British political advisor Dominic Cummings.
"[4] In 2015, Clauset received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to develop and evaluate new methods for characterizing the structure of networks.