Henry D. Pfister

Henry D. Pfister Addy Family Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Mathematics Duke University information initiative at Duke Rm 305 Gross Hall 140 Science Dr. Duke box #90984 Durham, NC 27708

Recent News

• 08/25 - Congratulations to the implementation competition winners at ISTC 2025

• 07/25 - Enjoyed SampTA 2025 in Vienna and presented “The Intersection between Compressed Sensing and Error Correction”

• 06/25 - Shared 2025 IEEE ITSOC Paper Award for our paper (joint with Galen Reeves) on RM codes for BMS channels

• 06/25 - Group presents 4 papers at ISIT 2025 in Michigan:

  • Neural Polar Decoders for Deletion Channels

  • Revealing the Waterfall Phenomenon of Long Random LDPC Hypergraph Product Codes

  • Reed–Muller Codes on CQ Channels via a New Correlation Bound for Quantum Observables

  • Belief Propagation Decoding on a Sparsified Graph Ensemble of the Surface Code

• 04/25 - Spoke about Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Code Constructions and Decoders at the UIUC ECE Distinguished Colloquium

• 04/25 - Presentation of Capacity Via Symmetry: Overview And Outlook at Simons reunion workshop for Error-Correcting Codes: Theory and Practice Reunion

• 02/25 - Group presents 4 posters at QIP in Durham:

  • Cluster Decomposition for Improved Erasure Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes

  • Revealing the Waterfall Phenomenon of Long Random LDPC Hypergraph Product Codes

  • Reed-Muller Codes and the Holevo Capacity

  • Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes without Post-Processing using an Ensemble of Sparsified Factor Graphs

• 02/25 - Group member Hanwen Yao presents our work Cluster Decomposition for Improved Erasure Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes at ITA 2025 in San Diego

• 02/25 - I presented our work on RM codes for CQ channels at ITA 2025 in San Diego

• 02/25 - Very happy to participate in a workshop to honor Professor Paul Siegel's 70th birthday

Contact

Pronouns: he/him/his
Office: Gross Hall 305
Email: henry.pfister@duke.edu
Office Hour (FA25): Tu 3-4pm and Th 9:30-10:30am in Gross Hall 305 or by appointment
Teaching (FA25)– ECE 581: Random Signals and Noise

Assistant

Katherine Peterson
Gross Hall 315
Tel: (919) 613-7829 Email: kathy.peterson@duke.edu