Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group
in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT. She obtained three Bachelors degrees (EECS 1989, Mathematics
1989 and Humanities 1991), as well as her M.S. (1991) and Sc.D (1995), all from MIT. Muriel is a Member of the
US National Academy of Engineering (elected 2020), a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina (elected 2022), a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (elected 2018), American Academy of
Arts and Sciences (elected 2021), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (elected
2008). She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Munich (2020) and from The University of
Aalborg (2022).
Muriel was co-winner of the MIT 2004 Harold E. Egerton Faculty Achievement Award and was named a Gilbreth
Lecturer by the US National Academy of Engineering in 2007. She received the 2017 IEEE Communications Society
Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award and the 2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology James Evans Avant Garde Award.
Muriel was awarded the 2022 IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. She received the 2019 Best Paper
award for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, the 2018 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award,
the 2009 IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2009 William R.
Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking, the 2002 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award, as
well as nine conference paper awards. Most of her prize papers are co-authored with students from her group.
Muriel has served as technical program committee co-chair of ISIT (twice), CoNext, WiOpt, WCNC and of many
workshops. She has chaired the IEEE Medals committee, and served as member and chair of many committees,
including as inaugural chair of the Millie Dresselhaus Medal. She was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on
Selected Areas in Communications and has served as editor or guest editor of many IEEE publications, including
the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, and the IEEE Transactions
on Information Forensics and Security. Muriel was a member of the inaugural steering committees for the IEEE
Transactions on Network Science and for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. She currently
serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Muriel was elected president of
the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2012, and serves on its board of governors, having previously served for
eleven years.
Muriel received the inaugural 2013 MIT EECS Graduate Student Association Mentor Award, voted by the students.
She set up the Women in the Information Theory Society (WithITS) and Information Theory Society Mentoring
Program, for which she was recognized with the 2017 Aaron Wyner Distinguished Service Award. She served as
undergraduate Faculty in Residence for seven years in two MIT dormitories (2002–2007). Murielwas elected by the
faculty and served as member and later chair of the MIT Faculty Committee on Student Life and as inaugural chair
of the MIT Faculty Committee on Campus Planning. She was chair of the Institute Committee on Student Life. She
was recognized as a Siemens Outstanding Mentor (2004) for her work with High School students. She serves on the
Board of Trustees since 2015 of the International School of Boston, for which she is treasurer.
Muriel has over sixty US and international patents awarded, the vast majority of which have been licensed or
acquired. For technology transfer, she has co-founded CodeOn, for which she consults, and Steinwurf, for which
she is Chief Scientist. She has supervised over 40 master students, over 20 doctoral students and over 25 postdoctoral fellows.