Muriel Médard

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, [EE and CS, AI+D] in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include Communications Systems, Electronic, Magnetic, Optical and Quantum Materials and Devices, and Information Science and Systems. She is affiliated with the EECS department and can be contacted via email at medard@mit.edu. Her website provides additional details about her work and research areas.

Muriel Medard is a Professor of EECS at MIT, known for her pioneering work in information theory, communications, and networks. Her research focuses on wireless networks, network coding, and the application of coding techniques to improve communication efficiency. Medard has contributed significantly to the development of random linear network coding for multicast and the practical implementation of wireless network coding. Her work explores the benefits of coding over routing, the impact of channel knowledge on capacity, and the resilience of network coding against adversarial attacks. She has also investigated the intersection of network coding with TCP and its application in virtual reality and ad hoc networks.