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 for 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. 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...

Livestream to Prof. Médard’s GOLDEN SPEAKER SERIES Talk Available

On January 18th, Prof. Muriel Médard presented her talk, "Embracing Randomness - Reflections on Life and Career." Within this talk, she discusses the origins of her engineering career, the convoluted journey that got her to where she is now, and what she learned along...

IEEE COMSNETS 2023: Best Demo Award Received for “Noise Recycling using GRAND for Improving the Decoding Performance”

Professor Muriel Médard, along with collaborators Arslan Riaz (Boston University, USA), Amit Solomon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Furkan Ercan (Boston University, USA), Rabia T Yazicigil (Boston University, USA), and Ken R. Duffy (Northeastern...

Sample MATLAB code for GRAND released on GitHub

Sample MATLAB code for GRAND has now been released on GitHub, linked through this website https://lnkd.in/ek3udRVz GRAND (Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding) was developed by Muriel Médard (MIT, USA) with Rabia Tugce Yazicigil (Boston University, USA), Ken R....

The GRAND chip will appear at ISSCC 2023.

ISSCC 2023 The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is the foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineer working at the cutting edge of IC design and...

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...

Photos from MWC “That’s My Slice” Panel, w/ Prof. Muriel Médard and Joe Constantine

On Monday, February 27th, Prof. Muriel Médard was honored to participate in a 2023 Mobile World Congress (MWC) panel event in Barcelona. Below are some great photos from the event, taken by the photographers of MWC and provided by Alex Clarke. The clip of Prof....

Clip of MWC “That’s My Slice” Panel w/ Prof. Muriel Médard & Joe Constantine

On Monday, February 27th, Prof. Muriel Medard was joined by Joe Constantine in a panel titled "That's My Slice!" for the 2023 Mobile World Congress (MWC) Conference in Barcelona. The panel discusses the growing network slicing market, what are the potentials of it and...

MWC Barcelona – JMA “That’s My Slice” Panel on February 27th, 2023

Join Muriel at MWC Barcelona, coming up soon! Prof. Muriel Médard will be joining Joe Constantine from JMA Wireless to talk about network slicing at the That's My Slice panel on Monday, February 27th, 2023. The panel will be taking place from 2:45 - 3:45 CET at the...

ITA 2023 – Prof. Médard’s Presentation Titled “6G – Modularity for Innovation”

On Monday, February 13th, Professor Muriel Médard has been invited to present at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop! This workshop is described as "a multidisciplinary meeting of academic and industrial researchers applying theory to diverse scientific...

Golden Speaker Series: Muriel Médard

The Technology Licensing Office is introducing the Golden Speaker Series, a two-day event (Jan. 18th and Jan. 20th) during MIT’s Independent Activities Period. The Golden Speaker Series will include talks and Q&A sessions from prominent researchers of the MIT community about their journeys within the MIT research, startup, and technology transfer ecosystem.

Keynote Speaker at 9th NSysS 2022

The 2022 9th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (9th NSysS 2022) aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users from academia, industry, and government to interact, present and exchange new research ideas and...

JMM 2023 Joint Mathematics Meeting Boston 1/4-1/7/2023

The Joint Mathematics Meeting is the world's largest mathematics gathering. Prof. Muriel Médard will be speaking at a Special Session on Coding Theory. The Special Session on Coding Theory will be meeting on Saturday January 7th, 2023 from 8:00AM-6:00PM. Prof....

Publications

 

Using channel correlation to improve decoding–ORBGRAND-AI

KR DuffyM GrundeiM Medard – arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.07461, 2023 – arxiv.org
16 days ago – To meet the Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) needs of
modern applications, there have been significant advances in the development of short error …

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Interception Probability versus Capacity in Wideband Systems: The Benefits of Peaky Signaling

DC González, CF Dias, ER Lima, YC Eldar… – IEEE …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
19 days ago – Spread-spectrum techniques have found extensive use in broadband
communications, both in military and commercial applications, for their low interception probability. …

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A Sub-0.8pJ/b 16.3Gbps/mm2 Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND in 40nm CMOS

A Riaz, A Yasar, F Ercan, W An, J Ngo… – … Solid-State Circuits …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
38 days ago – Many modern communication applications demand strict latency bounds, high
energy efficiency, and high bandwidth, for which only short-length, high-rate codes are …

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GRAND-EDGE: A Universal, Jamming-resilient Algorithm with Error-and-Erasure Decoding

F ErcanK GalliganD StarobinskiM Medard… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 – arxiv.org
63 days ago – Random jammers that overpower transmitted signals are a practical concern
for many wireless communication protocols. As such, wireless receivers must be able to cope …

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Noise Recycling using GRAND for Improving the Decoding Performance

A RiazA SolomonF ErcanM Medard… – 2023 15th …, 2023 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
85 days ago – Although noise is often modeled as an independent Gaussian process in
communication systems, a single communication channel is typically impacted by temporally …

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Confident decoding with GRAND

KR DuffyM Medard – arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05309, 2022 – arxiv.org
109 days ago – We establish that during the execution of any Guessing Random Additive Noise
Decoding (GRAND) algorithm, an interpretable, useful measure of decoding confidence …

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Physical layer insecurity

M MédardKR Duffy – arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01176, 2022 – arxiv.org
117 days ago – In the classic wiretap model, Alice wishes to reliably communicate to Bob
without being overheard by Eve who is eavesdropping over a degraded channel. Systems for …

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InfoShape: Task-Based Neural Data Shaping via Mutual Information

H Esfahanizadeh, W Wu, M Ghobadi, R Barzilay… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 – arxiv.org
154 days ago – The use of mutual information as a tool in private data sharing has remained
an open challenge due to the difficulty of its estimation in practice. In this paper, we propose …

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A General Security Approach for Soft-information Decoding against Smart Bursty Jammers

F ErcanK GalliganKR DuffyM Médard… – 2022 IEEE …, 2022 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
172 days ago – Malicious attacks such as jamming can cause significant disruption or complete
denial of service (DoS) to wireless communication protocols. Moreover, jamming devices …

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GRAND-assisted Optimal Modulation

B Ozaydin, M MédardKR Duffy – GLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
211 days ago – Optimal modulation (OM) schemes for Gaussian channels with peak and average
power constraints are known to require nonuniform probability distributions over signal …

 

People

Benoit Pit-Claudel

Doctoral Student
office: 36-512
email: bpitcla@mit.edu
website: https://pit-claudel.fr/benoit/

Homa Esfahanizadeh

Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512L
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website: https://homaesfahanizadeh.com/ 

Joseph Griffin

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

Alexander Mariona

Doctoral Student
office: 36-512
email: amariona@mit.edu 
website: https://github.com/agmariona

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

Hadi Sarieddeen

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

Megan Su

MEng Student
office: 36-512K
email: megansu@mit.edu 

Vipindev Vasudevan

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

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

Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512Q
email: cyyeh@mit.edu 

Peihong Yuan

Postdoctoral Associate
office: 36-512G
email: phyaun@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

 

Allison Christiansen
Program Administrator
Room 36-512C
617.253.6171