Muriel Médard | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1968-02-01)February 1, 1968 (age 57) |
| Nationality | American and French[1] |
| Known for | Research innetwork coding |
| Title | Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering |
| Awards | Edwin Howard Armstrong award (2017),IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2022) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert G. Gallager |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Muriel Médard (born February 1, 1968) is aninformation theorist andelectrical engineer. She is the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is known for her research innetwork coding.
Médard earned a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1989, with a double major in mathematics and electrical engineering. She earned a second bachelor's degree from MIT in 1991, in Russian studies, at the same time earning a master's degree in electrical engineering.[2] She completed her doctorate (Sc.D.) in electrical engineering at MIT, with a minor in management, in 1995. Her dissertation wasCapacity of Multiple User Time Varying Channels in Wireless Communications and was supervised byRobert G. Gallager.[2][3]
After postdoctoral research in theMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Médard became an assistant professor at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998. She returned to MIT as a faculty member in 2000.[2]
In 2012, Médard served as president of theIEEE Information Theory Society.[4]She is also the formereditor-in-chief of theIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,[5]and the co-founder of the companies CodeOn, Steinwurf and Chocolate Cloud.[5]
Médard became Cecil H. Green Professor in 2014.[6]
She was elected as a Fellow of theIEEE in 2008 "for contributions to wideband wireless fading channels and network coding."[7]In 2016 she received the IEEE Vehicular Technology James Evans Avant Garde Award.In 2017 she won the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of theIEEE Information Theory Society,[4]and the Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award of theIEEE Communications Society "for pioneering work in the fields of network coding, wireless communications, and optical networking".[5]In 2018 she received anACMSigcomm Test of Time Award. She received an honorary doctorate from theTechnical University of Munich in 2020.
She was elected as a member of theUS National Academy of Engineering in 2020[8] and as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors in 2018. In 2022, she won the Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for her work on a universal decoder.[9] She was elected to theGerman National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2022.[10]
