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Henry D. Pfister received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2003. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, with a secondary appointment in Mathematics. Before joining Duke, he served as an associate professor at Texas A&M University from 2006 to 2014 and was a post-doctoral fellow at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2005 to 2006. He also worked as a senior engineer at Qualcomm Corporate Research and Development from 2003 to 2004. Pfister's research interests cover information theory, including error-correcting codes, quantum computing, machine learning, and probabilistic graphical models. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2008 and the Texas A&M ECE Department Outstanding Professor Award in 2010. He has been actively involved in the IEEE Information Theory Society, serving as a member of the Board of Governors from 2019 to 2022 and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2013 to 2016, and has been a distinguished lecturer. He also served as the General Chair for the 2016 North American School of Information Theory.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)