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Henry D. Pfister received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, also holding a secondary appointment in Mathematics. Prior to his current position, he served as an associate professor at Texas A&M University from 2006 to 2014 and completed post-doctoral work at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne between 2005 and 2006. He was also a senior engineer at Qualcomm Corporate R&D in San Diego from 2003 to 2004. His research interests span information theory, error-correcting codes, quantum computing, and machine learning. Pfister has received several awards including the NSF Career Award in 2008 and the Texas A&M ECE Department Outstanding Professor Award in 2010. He has served on the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors from 2019 to 2022, was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2013 to 2016, and was a Distinguished Lecturer in 2015 to 2016.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)