Professor Muriel Médard
Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Department at MIT. She leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications (NCRC) Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT.
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Publications
B Ozaydin, M Médard, K Duffy – IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel demodulation technique that leverages developments in guesswork-based forward error correction decoders and variable-length bit-to-symbol mappings. For most …
Successive Refinement in Large-Scale Computation: Expediting Model Inference Applications
H Esfahanizadeh, A Cohen, SS Shitz… – IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern computationally-intensive applications often operate under time constraints, necessitating acceleration methods and distribution of computational workloads across multiple …
Soft-output (SO) GRAND and Iterative Decoding to Outperform LDPC Codes
P Yuan, M Médard, K Galligan… – IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
We establish that a large, flexible class of long, high redundancy error correcting codes can be efficiently and accurately decoded with guessing random additive noise decoding
Cryptanalysis via Machine Learning Based Information Theoretic Metrics
BD Kim, VA Vasudevan, RGL D’Oliveira… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 – arxiv.org
The fields of machine learning (ML) and cryptanalysis share an interestingly common objective of creating a function, based on a given set of inputs and outputs. However, the …
[BOOK] Network Coding for Engineers
M Médard, VA Vasudevan, MV Pedersen, KR Duffy – 2025 – books.google.com
Understand the fundamentals of network coding from an engineering perspective with this accessible guide Network Coding is a method of increasing network throughput and efficiency …
M Medard, VA Vasudevan, MV Pedersen, KR Duffy – 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Security is a major concern in modern communication networks. Especially with large networks,ensuring confidentiality and integrity of communications poses a significant challenge. …
M Medard, VA Vasudevan, MV Pedersen, KR Duffy – 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chapter 7 delves into the mathematical framework of network coding in depth. Heretoforewe have been focused on understanding practical use cases and the application of network …
Our Team
Current NCRC Group Members
Joseph Griffin
Doctoral Student
Office: 36-512K
Email: joecg@mit.edu
Laura Landon
Alex Mariona
Doctoral Student
Office: 36-512H
Email: amariona@mit.edu
Jane Millward
Doctoral Student
office: 36-512K
email: janem7@mit.edu
Basak Ozaydin
Doctoral Student
office: 36-512K
email: bozaydin@mit.edu
website: https://sites.google.com/view/basakozaydin/home
Lukas Rapp
Doctoral Student
office: 36-512
email: rappl@mit.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aLVPi_8AAAAJ&hl=en
Vipindev Vasudevan
Post-Doctoral Associate
office: 36-512N
email: vipindev@mit.edu
Website: https://sites.mit.edu/vipindev/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5_YBRBkAAAAJ&hl=en
Charles Wiame
Peihong Yuan
Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512G
email: phyuan@mit.edu
Former NCRC Group Members
Benoit Pit-Claudel
Doctoral Student
office: 36-512
email: bpitcla@mit.edu
website: https://pit-claudel.fr/benoit/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x-eFMxkAAAAJ
Homa Esfahanizadeh
Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512L
email: homaesf@MIT.EDU
website: https://homaesfahanizadeh.com/
Jongchan Woo
Doctoral Student
office: 36-512H
email: jc_woo@mit.edu
Kathleen Yang
Doctoral Student
office: 36-512K
email: klyang@MIT.EDU
website: ktljyang.github.io
Chia-Yi Yeh
Visiting Researcher
office: 36-512Q
email: cyyeh@mit.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/chiayi-yeh/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vG_kDDsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Current NCRC Group Collaborators
Sarah Khalifeh
PhD student at Northeastern University under Prof. Ken Duffy.
Jiewei Feng
PhD student at Northeastern University under Prof. Ken Duffy.
Rohit Joshi
PhD student at Northeastern University under Prof. Ken Duffy.
Teaching
Prof. Médard is on sabbatical for the Spring Semester 2025.
Contact
NCRC Group
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Room 36-512
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617.253.3167—Tel
Caroline Boutelant
Room 36-512
617.253.6171