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
617.253.3167—Tel
617.258.7864—Fax

News & Events

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 investigators (PI)s for excellent postdoctoral scholar mentoring, and...

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 Up the Next Generations of Communications - Modularization for...

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 focusing on creating stronger reliability within wireless networks and...

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 in nurturing success" panel. This panel discussion was centered around...

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 presentation will be occurring at 4 PM (+1 UTC) on June 2nd and will be...

Photos from the ISSCC ORBGRAND Demo!

On February 21st, Prof. Muriel Médard, along with Prof. Rabia Yazicigil and Arslan Riaz, held a demonstration of the ORBGRAND chip at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. Attached are photos from this demonstration, as well as images of...

Prof. Médard’s Feature in France’s The Good Life Magazine

An issue of the French magazine The Good Life was released, with an article that focuses in on MIT as "The Good College" for their issue. Sophy Caulier is the author of this story. Within that article, Prof. Muriel Médard is profiled as an example of an...

GRAND Chip in MIT News: “A new chip for decoding data transmissions demonstrates record-breaking energy efficiency”

An article was published in MIT News by Adam Zewe detailing the development and success of the ORBGRAND chip, an evolution of the previously developed GRAND chip algorithm. The ORBGRAND chip, which stands for the "Ordered Reliability Bits GRAND," uses "reliability...

ISSCC San Francisco: Demos & Papers

This week at the 2023 International Solid States Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Prof. Muriel Médard will be involved in two different events that take place on February 21st and 22nd respectively. The first event will be a demonstration of her work involving the GRAND...

Prof. Médard to Receive Leopoldina Membership in Ceremonial Presentation

Professor Muriel Médard has been invited to Halle, Germany, by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina to receive her Class 1 membership certificate. The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina consults with the German government on scientific...

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 cybersecurity on a monthly basis. These presentations are also given...

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 field of global communications. Below are the presentations that are...

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 will be giving a presenting on her universal decoding...

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 symposium. The title is "6G - Can We Escape Gravity" and will touch on 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 Signal Processing." This talk will be given on the last day of...

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 innovators in science, technology, and society to present their work...

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" and will focus on the field of research from a female perspective,...

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 presentation will be occurring at 4 PM (+1 UTC) on June 2nd and will be...

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 the "Entrepreneurship & Inclusion - IP's Role in Nurturing...

Prof. Médard to Give Presentation for IEEE Signal Processing Society – April 25th, 2023

On April 25th, Prof. Muriel Médard will be giving a presentation for the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Gujarat Chapter for their 2023 Technical Talk Series! The talk will be held at 5:00 PM IST / 7:30 AM EST. The title of her talk is "Guessing Random Additive Noise...

Publications

 

Absolute Security in Terahertz Wireless Links

A Cohen, RGL D’Oliveira, CY Yeh… – IEEE Journal of …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Security against eavesdropping is one of the key concerns in the design of
any communication system. Many common considerations of the security of a wireless …
[PDF] researchgate.net

 

CERMET: Coding for Energy Reduction with Multiple Encryption Techniques — 

J Woo, VA Vasudevan, B Kim, A Cohen… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 – arxiv.org
This paper presents CERMET, an energy-efficient hardware architecture
designed for hardware-constrained cryptosystems. CERMET employs a base cryptosystem in …
[PDF] arxiv.org

 

Joint Optimization of Storage and Transmission via Coding Traffic Flows for Content Distribution

D Malak, Y Li, S Ioannidis, EM Yeh, M Médard – sherry6352.github.io
We provide a flow-based coded caching framework for information centric
networks. We jointly optimize delivery rates, cross coding, and cache contents allocation as a …
[PDF] github.io

 

Soft-input, soft-output joint data detection and GRAND: A performance and complexity analysis

H Sarieddeen, P Yuan, M Médard… – 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) has recently demonstrated
maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding performance on efficient, universal silicon realizations…

 

Leveraging Noise Recycling in Soft Detection Decoding Using ORBGRAND

ZE Kizilates, A Riaz, GF Coraluppi… – 2023 IEEE …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
For communications subject to correlated channel effects, noise recycling has
recently been shown to enhance channel capacity with receiver-side-only changes. Using a …

 

Practical Sliding Window Recoder: Design, Analysis, and Usecases

V Adat Vasudevan, T Soni, M Médard – arXiv e-prints, 2023 – ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Network coding has been widely used as a technology to ensure efficient and
reliable communication. The ability to recode packets at the intermediate nodes is a major …

Practical Sliding Window Recoder: Design, Analysis, and Usecases

VA Vasudevan, T Soni, M Médard – arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10135, 2023 – arxiv.org
Network coding has been widely used as a technology to ensure efficient and
reliable communication. The ability to recode packets at the intermediate nodes is a major …
[PDF] arxiv.org

 

Universal Soft-Detection Decoder with Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Using ORBGRAND

A Riaz, ZE Kizilates, A Yasar, F Ercan… – 2023 IEEE 24th …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents an interactive real-time demonstration of the first-integrated
universal soft-detection decoder with an ultra-low energy consumption of 0.76pJ/bit and the …

 

Millimeter-Wave Testbed and Modeling in NeXt Generation URLLC Communications

E Dias, D Raposo, H Esfahanizadeh… – 2023 IEEE 24th …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling realistic millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels is crucial to the study
of ultra-reliable communication in next-generation wireless networks. MmWave provides …
[PDF] researchgate.net

 

Blockage Prediction in Directional mmWave Links Using Liquid Time Constant Network

MH Nielsen, CY Yeh, M Shen, M Médard – arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.04997, 2023 – arxiv.org
We propose to use a liquid time constant (LTC) network to predict the future
blockage status of a millimeter wave (mmWave) link using only the received signal power as …
[PDF] arxiv.org

 

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People

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/ 

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 

 

Vipindev Vasudevan

Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512N
email: vipindev@mit.edu 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/vipindevadat

 

Charles Wiame

Postdoctoral Associate

Office: 36-512A

Email: wiame@mit.edu

Website: https://sites.mit.edu/wiame/

 

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
Peihong Yuan

Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512G
email: phyuan@mit.edu 

Teaching

Current:

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
Room 36-512F
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

617.253.3167—Tel
617.258.7864—Fax

 

Genevieve Duffy
Program Administrator
Room 36-512
617.253.6171