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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Room 36-512F
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
News & Events
Publications
Selected Publications
GRAND-AM in uplink MIMO NOMA systems
SOGRAND Decoding of Non-binary Product Codes
Modeling Network Coding-Enabled Protocols on Bursty Channels
[BOOK] Network Coding for Engineers
Soft-output (SO) GRAND and Iterative Decoding to Outperform LDPC Codes
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
Group Members (current)
Yu Ge
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Yu Ge received his Ph.D. degree from Chalmers University of Technology in 2024, his M.Sc. degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2019, and his B.Eng. degree from Zhejiang University in 2017. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, supported by the Wallenberg International Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research interests focus on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), wireless localization systems, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and integrated sensing and coding/decoding systems, with particular emphasis on 5G and beyond-5G/6G technologies.
Email: yuge@mit.edu
Jacqueline Malayter
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jacqueline received her Ph.D. (Fall 2025) and B.Sc. (Fall 2020) in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Her current research involves applications and variations of GRAND decoding, focusing on the intersection of performance and hardware-friendly design for next-generation wireless implementations.
Email: malayter@mit.edu
Duschia Bodet
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rawan Alghamdi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alexander Mariona
Doctoral Student
Laura Landon
Doctoral Student
Laura Landon received an M.S. at MIT, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at BYU, with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics. Current work focuses on forward error and erasure correction for networks ranging from cellular to satellite, with evaluation on real-world traces and hardware testbeds.
Email: llandon9@mit.edu
Lukas Rapp
Doctoral Student
Lukas Rapp received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2020 and 2023, respectively. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in EECS at MIT. His research interests include complexity-reduction techniques for GRAND and iterative decoding methods for soft-output GRAND, with applications to classical and quantum error correction.
Email: rappl@mit.edu
Benjamin Kim
Doctoral Student
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