Henry D. Pfister – Research Group

Postdoctoral Scholars

• Hanwen Yao

Current Students

• Avijit Mandal

• Mert Gökduman

• Shrigyan Brahmachari

Undergraduate Researchers

• Jack Weinberg

Former Members

• S. Brandsen, PhD 7/21

  • Thesis: Locally Adaptive Protocols for Quantum State Discrimination

  • Joined Duke as a post-doc after completion

  • Currently works for the Duke Autism Center as an autism researcher with a focus on promoting quality of life in Autistic individuals

• Mengke Lian, PhD 12/19

  • Thesis: Belief Propagation with Deep Unfolding for High-dimensional Inference in Communication Systems

  • Joined Google in Mountain View after completion

• Narayanan Rengaswamy, PhD 05/20

  • Assistant Professor at University of Arizona

  • Thesis: Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications

  • MS Thesis: On Cyclic Polar Codes and the Burst Erasure Performance of Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes

• Christian Häger, Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow joint with Chalmers, Sweden

  • Visiting student, 09/14 - 12/14 & 08/15 - 11/15, Chalmers University, Sweden

• Fabrizio Carpi, 03/18 - 09/18, University of Parma, Italy

  • Joined NYU Tandon School of Engineering as a PhD Student in Electrical Engineering

• Elia Santi, 11/16 - 06/17, University of Parma, Italy

• Siyang (Alicia) Yuan, MS 05/17

  • Completed PhD in 2022 at Duke University advised by Larry Carin

• Mohammad Sanatkar, PhD 12/16

  • Thesis: The Dynamics of Polarized Beliefs in Networks Governed by Viral Diffusion and Media Influence

  • Joined eBay in San Jose after completion

• Santhosh Kumar Vanaparthy, PhD 12/15 (co-advised by Jean-Francois Chamberland)

  • Thesis: Capacity-Achieving Coding Mechanisms: Spatial Coupling and Group Symmetries

  • Joined Intel in San Jose after completion

• Santosh Kumar Emmadi, MS 12/14

  • Thesis: Half-Product Codes

  • Joined Intel in San Jose after completion

• Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, PhD 05/14 (co-advised by Jean-Francois Chamberland)

  • Thesis: On the Performance Analysis of Block Codes over Unreliable Channels in Delay-Sensitive Communications

  • Joined Qualcomm in Santa Clara after completion

• Yung-Yih Jian, PhD 08/13

  • Thesis: On the Analysis of Spatially-Coupled GLDPC Codes and the Weighted Min-Sum Algorithm

  • Joined Qualcomm in Santa Clara after completion

• Arvind Yedla, PhD 08/12 (co-advised by Krishna Narayanan)

  • Thesis: Universality for Multi-Terminal Problems via Spatial Coupling

  • Joined Samsung in San Diego after completion

• Phong S. Nguyen, PhD 05/12 (co-advised by Krishna Narayanan)

  • Thesis: Advanced Coding Techniques with Applications to Storage Systems

  • Joined Marvell in San Jose after completion

• Byung-Hak Kim, PhD 05/12

  • Thesis: Joint Equalization and Decoding via Convex Optimization

  • Joined Marvell in San Jose after completion

• Fan Zhang, PhD 05/10

  • Thesis: LDPC Codes over Large Alphabets and their Applications to Compressed Sensing and Flash Memory

  • Joined LSI Logic in San Jose after completion

• Aparna Khare, MS 12/10

  • Thesis: Capacity and Coding for 2D Channels

  • Joined Cisco System in San Francisco Bay Area after completion

• Sirish Boddikurapati, MS 12/09

  • Thesis: Sequential Monte Carlo Methods with Applications to Communication Channels

  • Joined Texas Instruments in Dallas after completion

• Chia-Wen Wang, MS 07/08

  • Thesis: Bounds on the MAP Threshold of Iterative Decoding Systems with Erasure Noise

  • Joined RealTek in Taiwan after completion