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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Alistair Sinclair

Alistair Sinclair publishes mostly in Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods, Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics and Algorithms and Data Compression.

ORCID 0009-0002-9210-268X OpenAlex
World rank
#28,098
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#13,168
of 358,040
Works
42
Citations
736
Citations per work
17.5

What does Alistair Sinclair research?

Statistics and Probability: 26.7%Mathematical Physics: 21.7%Artificial Intelligence: 15.0%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 8.3%other fields: 28.3%27%top field
Statistics and Probability26.7%Mathematical Physics21.7%Artificial Intelligence15.0%Computational Theory and Mathematics8.3%other fields28.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Statistics and Probability27% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics22% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence15% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics8% of their works
  5. 5Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics7% of their works
  6. 6Management Information Systems5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alistair Sinclair's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Approximation Algorithms, Bayesian Monte Carlo, Markov Chain, Interacting Particle Systems, Scaling Limits, Call Center, Clustering and Combinatorics.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Approximation Algorithms172 topics
  2. Bayesian Monte Carlo141 topic
  3. Markov Chain141 topic
  4. Interacting Particle Systems111 topic
  5. Scaling Limits111 topic
  6. Call Center31 topic
  7. Clustering31 topic
  8. Combinatorics31 topic
  9. Compression31 topic
  10. Critical Phenomena31 topic
  11. Graph Theory31 topic
  12. Mixture Models31 topic
  13. Parameterized Complexity31 topic
  14. Permutations31 topic
  15. Phase Transitions31 topic
  16. Queueing Systems31 topic
  17. Suffix Arrays31 topic

Where does Alistair Sinclair work?

Alistair Sinclair's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alistair Sinclair have?

Science Explorer counts 42 works and 736 citations for Alistair Sinclair, ranking #28,098 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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