Scholars@Duke
Henry Pfister

Henry Pfister

Addy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
90984, 315 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708
140 Science Dr., 305 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Academic Honors

Information Theory Society Paper Award

Other IEEE Information Theory Society · 2025 G. Reeves and H. D. Pfister, “Reed–Muller codes on BMS channels achieve vanishing bit-error probability for all rates below capacity,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, 2023. More about this award

Information Theory Society Paper Award

International IEEE Information Theory Society · 2021 S. Kudekar, S. Kumar, M. Mondelli, H. D. Pfister, E. Sasoglu, and R. Urbanke, “Reed-Muller codes achieve capacity on erasure channels,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 4298–4316, 2017. More about this award

Best Paper Award

International Symposium on the Theory of Computation (STOC) · 2016 Co-author of paper, entitled “Reed-Muller Codes Achieve Capacity on Erasure Channels”, that was selected as one of three best papers at STOC 2016.

2015-2016 Distinguished Lecturer

International IEEE Information Theory Society · 2015

NSF CAREER Award

National National Science Foundation · 2008

2007 Best Paper in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage

International IEEE Communications Society · 2007 J. B. Soriaga, H. D. Pfister, and P. H. Siegel, "Determining and approaching achievable rates of
binary intersymbol interference channels using multistage decoding," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory,
vol. 53, pp. 1416-1429, April 2007

News Items

Published November 22, 2021
Information Theorists Settle 70-Year-Old Communications Question
Published September 17, 2014
Pratt's Henry Pfister: Inferring Answers through Graphical Models