Professor Muriel Médard

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT and leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Room 36-512F
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

News & Events

September 23rd – Prof. Muriel Médard Elected as International Fellow to the Royal Academy of Engineering

Royal Academy of Engineering welcomes 74 new Fellows At its AGM on 23 September 2025 the Royal Academy of Engineering elected 74 leading figures in the field...

October 3rd – Recognizing #IEEE Fellow Muriel Médard

LinkedIn Post IEEE Fellow Muriel Médard, affiliated with IEEE Communications Society, for her groundbreaking contributions to the theory and practice of network coding, optical networks and wireless...

MIT News (7/29/25): New transmitter could make wireless devices more energy-efficient

The flexible chip could boost the performance of current electronics and meet the more stringent efficiency requirements of future 6G technologies. Adam Zewe | MIT News Publication Date: July 29,...

Prof. Muriel Médard at Paris-Saclay Summit 2025 – Choose Science

Prof. Médard took part in the panel discussion: Networks, information, data transmission: what will the next frontiers be? (starting at 1:46:14) at Paris- Saclay Summit on February 12th, 2025.

MilCom Best Paper Award: “Error Correction in Interference-Limited Wireless Systems”

We are pleased to announce that Charles Wiame, Prof. Muriel Médard, and Prof. Ken Duffy of Northeastern, received the 2024 Ellersick Best Paper Award at IEEE's Military Communications Conference...

Jane Avril Millward – NCRC PhD Student Named 2024 Quad Fellow

Recently, one of our PhD students, Jane Avril Millward (Communications Engineering) was inaugurated into the 2024 Cohort of Quad Fellows. During the Quad Fellowship Summit, she participated in a...

Prof. Muriel Médard: Mentoring Award Recipient From MIT’s PDA

For 2022, Professor Muriel Médard is the recipient of the Mentoring Award from MIT's Post Doctoral Association! In the words of the PDA, the goal of this award is to "honor and acknowledge principal...

Muriel Médard’s Visit to Rice University

Last week, Professor Muriel Médard visited Rice University to give the Brice Lecture as part of Rice University's ECE Gene Brice colloquium series. Prof. Médard's lecture was titled "Towards Opening...

MIT Professor Muriel Médard and JMA Launch Groundbreaking 5G Research Partnership

A three-year research partnership between Professor Muriel Médard and JMA Wireless today, with the goal of delivering ultra-reliable low-latency (URLLC) wireless service. The collaboration is...

Video Release from IPAS 2023 Panel: “Entrepreneurship & Inclusion”

The Intellectual Property Awareness Summit, which took place in early May, just released its footage from its conference, including the video from the "Entrepreneurship & Inclusion - IP's role...

April 13th – Panel at Harvard Blockchain Conference

On Saturday, April 13th, Professor Muriel Médard will be joining in a panel for the Harvard Blockchain Conference. This will take place in Harvard's Northwest Building from 1:45 - 2:30 PM. The panel...

Cyber Security Presentation – Dec 13th, 2023

On Wednesday, Dec 13th, Professor Médard will be giving a presentation at 8 AM (EST) / 2 PM (CET) for TALK.CYBERcni.fr.'s "Cybersecurity Speaker Series." This series covers a range of topics in...

GLOBECOM 2023 Presentations – Keynotes & More!

This week, Globecom 2023 will be taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On top of paper presentations and workshops, Prof. Muriel Médard will be giving a keynote alongside six other experts in the...

LatinCom 2023 – Prof. Médard’s Presentations

This Friday, November 17th, Professor Muriel Médard will be presenting a keynote, as well as joining in on the WICE panel at IEEE's LatinCom. Since the focus of the conference is on communications,...

Prof. Médard’s Presentation – ELLIIT Focus Period 2023

On Wednesday, November 8th, Professor Muriel Médard will be giving a presentation at the 2023 ELLIIT Workshop in Lund, Sweden. This presentation will take place from 3:00 - 3:45 PM (CET) at the...

LatinCom 2023 Keynote – November 17th

On November 17th, Prof. Muriel Médard will be giving a Keynote presentation at LatinCom 2023 titled "Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) or Universal decoding algorithm, and relation to...

Upcoming: Dartmouth Jones Seminar Presentation: “How I Learned to Decode”

This Friday, Prof. Muriel Médard will be giving a presentation at Dartmouth titled "How I Learned to Decode," hosted by Prof. Peter Chin. The Jones Seminar is a speaker series that invites leading...

WoWMoM 2023 – N2Women Talk Event on Thursday, June 15th

On June 15th, from 3:30 - 4:30 PM, the 2023 World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia Networks symposium will be hosting its N2Women event. The event is titled "Lean In: A Successful Path for Women"...

Prof. Médard to Receive Honor of “Doctor Honoris Causa” from Budapest University of Technology and Economics

In early June, Prof. Médard will be giving a presentation at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in conjunction with her receiving the honor of Doctor Honoris Causa. Her...

IPAS 2023 on May 2nd – Panel To Be Held on “Entrepreneurship & Inclusion”

On May 2nd, the 2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Summit (IPAS) will be held at the Center for Innovation Research at Northeastern University. Prof. Muriel Médard will be apart of this summit on...

Publications

Full Publication List

Selected Publications

GRAND-AM in uplink MIMO NOMA systems

K Yang, M Médard, KR Duffy – 2025 59th Annual Conference …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems and nonorthogonal multipleaccess (NOMA) methods are both valuable techniques for modern and future communication …

SOGRAND Decoding of Non-binary Product Codes

L Rapp, M Médard, KR Duffy – 2025 59th Annual Conference …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org

Non-binary product codes are matrices with entries in an extension field, where the rows and columns are protected by linear non-binary component codes. As with binary …

Modeling Network Coding-Enabled Protocols on Bursty Channels

YA Biyikoglu, VA Vasudevan… – 2025 59th Annual …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org

Use of millimeter waves (mmWave) and other high frequency bands are expected to be a crucial part of 6G networks. Performance analysis of mmWave communication …

[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 …

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 …

GRAND-assisted Demodulation

B Ozaydin, M Médard, K Duffy – IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2025 – ieeexplore.ieee.org

We propose a novel demodulation technique that leverages developments inguesswork-based forward error correction decoders and variable-length bit-to-symbol …

Group Members (current)

Joseph Griffin

Doctoral Student
office: 36-512K
email: joecg@mit.edu

Laura Landon

Doctoral Student
Office: 36-512

Contact: llandon9@mit.edu

Alex Mariona

Doctoral Student
office: 36-512K
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

Teaching

Classes Taught Previously at MIT (EECS Department):

6.120A – Discrete Mathematics and Proof for Computer Science

6.7411/6.7410 Principles of Digital Communication

6.450 – Principles of Digital Communication

6.036 – Introduction to Machine Learning

6.006 – Introduction to Algorithms

6.02 – Introduction to EECS via Communication Networks

6.033 – Computer Systems Engineering

6.S076 – Special Subject in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Contact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Laboratory of Electronics
36-512
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

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