Henry D. Pfister

Henry D. Pfister Jeffrey N. Vinik Chair 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

• 12/24 - I'm helping organize a code implementation contest for ISTC 2025 at UCLA this August

• 12/24 - Data-Driven Neural Polar Codes for Unknown Channels With and Without Memory appears in IT Transactions

• 12/24 - Cluster Decomposition for Improved Erasure Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes submitted to JSAIT special issue on Quantum Error Correction

• 10/24 - Erasure Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes via Belief Propagation with Guided Decimation presented at Allerton 2024

• 07/24 - Quantum State Compression with Polar Codes presented at ISIT 2024

• 07/24 - Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes with Guided Decimation presented at ISIT 2024

• 07/24 - Code Rate Optimization via Neural Polar Decoders presented at ISIT 2024

• 06/24 - On the maximal L1 influence of real-valued boolean functions posted to arXiv

• 06/24 - Invited lecture on “Boolean Functions and Error-Correcting Codes: Why Reed-Muller Codes Achieve Capacity” at 2024 JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School held at IIT Hyderabad, India

• 01/24 - Polar Codes for CQ Channels: Decoding via Belief-Propagation with Quantum Messages submitted to ISIT 2024

• 02/24 - Group member Hanwen Yao presents Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes with Guided Decimation at ITA 2024

• 01/24 - Quantum State Compression with Polar Codes submitted to ISIT 2024

• 01/24 - Polar Codes for CQ Channels: Decoding via Belief-Propagation with Quantum Messages posted to arXiv

• 01/24 - Starting one semester sabbatical at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing as co-organizer of the Spring 2024 program Error-Correcting Codes: Theory and Practice

• 12/23 - Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes with Guided Decimation submitted to Quantum

• 09/23 - Data-Driven Neural Polar Codes for Unknown Channels With and Without Memory posted to arXiv

• 06/23 - Achieving Capacity on Non-Binary Channels with Generalized Reed-Muller Codes presented at ISIT 2023

• 06/23 - Reed-Muller Codes on BMS Channels Achieve Vanishing Bit-Error Probability for All Rates Below Capacity (joint with Galen Reeves) appears in IT Transactions (Also arXiv)

Contact

Pronouns: he/him/his
Office: Gross Hall 305
Tel: (919) 660-5288
Email: henry.pfister@duke.edu
Office Hour (FA24): Th 2-3pm in Gross Hall 305 or by appointment
Teaching (FA24)– ECE 587: Information Theory

Assistant

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