Henry Pfister
- Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Associate Professor of Mathematics (Secondary)
Henry D. Pfister received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from the University of California, San Diego and is currently a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Duke University with a secondary appointment in Mathematics. Prior to that, he was an associate professor at Texas A&M University (2006-2014), a post-doctoral fellow at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2005-2006), and a senior engineer at Qualcomm Corporate R&D in San Diego (2003-2004). His current research interests include information theory, error-correcting codes, quantum computing, and machine learning.
He received the NSF Career Award in 2008 and a Texas A&M ECE Department Outstanding Professor Award in 2010. He is a coauthor of the 2007 IEEE COMSOC best paper in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage and a coauthor of a 2016 Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC) best paper. He has served the IEEE Information Theory Society as a member of the Board of Governors (2019-2022), an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2013-2016), and a Distinguished Lecturer (2015-2016). He was also the General Chair of the 2016 North American School of Information Theory.
Yedla, A., et al. “Can iterative decoding for erasure correlated sources be universal?” 2009 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2009, 2009, pp. 408–15. Scopus, doi:10.1109/ALLERTON.2009.5394794. Full Text
Zhang, F., and H. D. Pfister. “Modulation codes for flash memory based on load-balancing theory.” 2009 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2009, 2009, pp. 1039–46. Scopus, doi:10.1109/ALLERTON.2009.5394880. Full Text
Wang, C. W., and H. D. Pfister. “Upper bounds on the MAP threshold of iterative decoding systems with erasure noise.” 2008 5th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics, Turbocoding, 2008, pp. 7–12. Scopus, doi:10.1109/TURBOCODING.2008.4658664. Full Text
Zhang, F., and H. D. Pfister. “Compressed sensing and linear codes over real numbers.” 2008 Information Theory and Applications Workshop Conference Proceedings, Ita, 2008, pp. 558–61. Scopus, doi:10.1109/ITA.2008.4601055. Full Text
Pfister, H. D., and P. H. Siegel. “Joint iterative decoding of LDPC codes for channels with memory and erasure noise.” Ieee Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 26, no. 2, 2008, pp. 320–37. Scopus, doi:10.1109/JSAC.2008.080209. Full Text
Zhang, Fan, and Henry D. Pfister. “Compressed Sensing and Linear Codes over Real Numbers.” 2008 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, IEEE, 2008, pp. 278–81.
Fan, Z., and H. D. Pfister. “List-message passing achieves capacity on the q-ary symmetric channel for large q.” Globecom Ieee Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007, pp. 283–87. Scopus, doi:10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.60. Full Text
Diggavi, S., et al. “Capacity upper bounds for the deletion channel.” Ieee International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2007, pp. 1716–20. Scopus, doi:10.1109/ISIT.2007.4557469. Full Text
Soriaga, J. B., et al. “Determining and approaching achievable rates of binary intersymbol interference channels using multistage decoding.” Ieee Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 4, 2007, pp. 1416–29. Scopus, doi:10.1109/TIT.2007.892778. Full Text
Zhang, Fan, and Henry D. Pfister. “List-Message Passing Achieves Capacity on the q-ary Symmetric Channel for Large q.” Globecom, IEEE, 2007, pp. 283–87.