David John Aldous FRS (born 13 July 1952) is a mathematician known for his research on probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence.

[1] Aldous was on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley from 1979 until his retirement in 2018.

[5] In 2004, Aldous was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[6] From 2004 to 2010, Aldous was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

[10] He discovered (independently from Andrei Broder) an algorithm for generating a uniform spanning tree of a given graph.