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Henry D. Pfister

Henry D. Pfister

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
33
Citations
4688
World Ranking
6061
National Ranking
2021

Overview

Henry D. Pfister is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research intersects multiple areas within computer science and engineering, with a focus on topics such as error correcting code techniques, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, and advanced wireless communication techniques.

The scientist's work spans several main fields of study, primarily:

  • Computer Science (73 publications)
  • Engineering (23 publications)

Within these fields, they have contributed to several subfields, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence (37 publications)
  • Computer Networks and Communications (29 publications)
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering (22 publications)
  • Molecular Biology (9 publications)
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics (7 publications)

The key topics covered in their research include:

  • Error Correcting Code Techniques (44 publications)
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (32 publications)
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (22 publications)
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography (14 publications)
  • DNA and Biological Computing (12 publications)
  • Optical Network Technologies (12 publications)
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (12 publications)

Henry D. Pfister has a notable presence in academic publishing, contributing extensively to venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 22 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (6 publications)
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (3 publications)
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2 publications)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology (1 publication)

Their recent papers illustrate a range of interests and collaborations. These include:

  • "Revisiting Efficient Multi-Step Nonlinearity Compensation With Machine Learning: An Experimental Demonstration," published in 2020 in the Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "On Optimality of CSS Codes for Transversal T," published in 2020 in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
  • "An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Successive Cancellation List Decoding and Polar Code Design," published in 2022 in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • "Reed-Muller Codes on BMS Channels Achieve Vanishing Bit-Error Probability for all Rates Below Capacity," published in 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • "Polar Codes for the Deletion Channel: Weak and Strong Polarization," published in 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Co-authorship is a significant part of Pfister's research activity, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Narayanan Rengaswamy (8 joint publications)
  • Christian Häger (7 joint publications)
  • Galen Reeves (6 joint publications)
  • Alexandre Graell i Amat (5 joint publications)
  • Mustafa Cemil Coşkun (4 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Joint Physical Layer Coding and Network Coding for Bidirectional Relaying

    Makesh Pravin Wilson;Krishna Narayanan;Henry D Pfister;Alex Sprintson

  • Capacity-approaching bandwidth-efficient coded modulation schemes based on low-density parity-check codes

    J. Hou;P.H. Siegel;L.B. Milstein;H.D. Pfister

  • On the achievable information rates of finite state ISI channels

    H.D. Pfister;J.B. Soriaga;P.H. Siegel

  • Joint Physical Layer Coding and Network Coding for Bi-Directional Relaying

    Makesh Pravin Wilson;Krishna Narayanan;Henry Pfister;Alex Sprintson

  • Capacity-achieving ensembles for the binary erasure channel with bounded complexity

    H.D. Pfister;I. Sason;R. Urbanke

  • Nonlinear Interference Mitigation via Deep Neural Networks

    Christian Hager;Henry D. Pfister

  • Iterative collision resolution for slotted ALOHA: An optimal uncoordinated transmission policy

    Krishna R. Narayanan;Henry D. Pfister

  • The effect of spatial coupling on compressive sensing

    Shrinivas Kudekar;Henry D. Pfister

  • The replica-symmetric prediction for compressed sensing with Gaussian matrices is exact

    Galen Reeves;Henry D. Pfister

  • Analysis of Verification-Based Decoding on the $q$ -ary Symmetric Channel for Large $q$

    Fan Zhang;H. D. Pfister

  • A simple proof of threshold saturation for coupled scalar recursions

    Arvind Yedla;Yung-Yih Jian;Phong S. Nguyen;Henry D. Pfister

  • Approaching Capacity at High Rates With Iterative Hard-Decision Decoding

    Yung-Yih Jian;Henry D. Pfister;Krishna R. Narayanan

  • Joint Physical Layer Coding and Network Coding for Bi-Directional Relaying

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  • Implementing interference cancellation to increase the EV-DO Rev A reverse link capacity

    J. Hou;J.E. Smee;H.D. Pfister;S. Tomasin

  • Enhancing Capacity of Spatial Multiplexing Systems Using Reconfigurable Cavity-Backed Metasurface Antennas in Clustered MIMO Channels

    Insang Yoo;Mohammadreza F. Imani;Timothy Sleasman;Henry D. Pfister

  • Threshold Saturation for Spatially Coupled LDPC and LDGM Codes on BMS Channels

    Santhosh Kumar;Andrew J. Young;Nicolas Macris;Henry D. Pfister

  • Verification Decoding of High-Rate LDPC Codes With Applications in Compressed Sensing

    Fan Zhang;H. D. Pfister

  • Method and device for interference cancellation

    Smee John Edward;Pfister Henry David;Hou Jilei;Tomasin Stefano

  • The serial concatenation of rate-1 codes through uniform random interleavers

    H.D. Pfister;P.H. Siegel

  • Capacity Upper Bounds for the Deletion Channel

    S. Diggavi;M. Mitzenmacher;H.D. Pfister

  • A Simple Proof of Maxwell Saturation for Coupled Scalar Recursions

    Arvind Yedla;Yung-Yih Jian;Phong S. Nguyen;Henry D. Pfister

  • Iterative hard-decision decoding of braided BCH codes for high-speed optical communication

    Yung-Yih Jian;Henry D. Pfister;Krishna R. Narayanan;Raghu Rao

  • On the capacity of finite state channels and the analysis of convolutional accumulate-m codes

    Henry David Pfister;Paul H. Siegel

  • Capacity-Achieving Ensembles of Accumulate-Repeat-Accumulate Codes for the Erasure Channel with Bounded Complexity ¤

    Henry D. Pfister;Igal Sason

  • Universal codes for the Gaussian MAC via spatial coupling

    Arvind Yedla;Phong S. Nguyen;Henry D. Pfister;Krishna R. Narayanan

  • On the Iterative Decoding of High-Rate LDPC Codes With Applications in Compressed Sensing

    Fan Zhang;Henry D. Pfister

Frequent Co-Authors

Krishna R. Narayanan
Krishna R. Narayanan Texas A&M University
Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar
Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar Qualcomm (United States)
Alex Alvarado
Alex Alvarado Eindhoven University of Technology
Saikat Guha
Saikat Guha University of Arizona
Erik Agrell
Erik Agrell Chalmers University of Technology
Suhas Diggavi
Suhas Diggavi University of California, Los Angeles
David R. Smith
David R. Smith Duke University

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