Muriel Medard
NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). Her research interests are in the areas of network coding and reliable communications, particularly for optical and wireless networks. Her work in network coding, hardware implementation, and her original algorithms have received widespread recognition and awards. Médard is the co-founder of three companies to commercialize network coding — CodeOn, Steinwurf and Chocolate Cloud. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and as an editor for other IEEE publications. She is an elected fellow of the IEEE, National Academy of Inventors and National Academy of Engineering.
Publications
- Salamatian, S., Huleihel, W., Beirami, A., Cohen, A., Médard, M. (2020). Centralized vs Decentralized Targeted Brute-Force Attacks: Guessing with Side-Information. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
- Liu, L., Solomon, A., Salamatian, S., Médard, M. (2020). Neural Network Coding. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
- Cohen, A., Malak, D., Bar Bracha, V., Médard, M. (2020). Adaptive causal network coding with feedback. IEEE Transactions on Communications.
- Duffy, K.R., Li, J., Médard, M. (2019) Capacity-Achieving Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Media
- February 26, 2020: MIT News, Four MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2020.
- February 13, 2020: MIT Sloan News, 5G, explained.
- August 10, 2018: MIT News, 3Q: Muriel Médard on the world-altering rise of 5G.