Muriel Medard is co-founder and CEO of Optimum, solving the most pressing scalability and cost challenges in blockchain ecosystems by optimizing decentralized latency and bandwidth. The company is a spin-out of over two decades of research and development from her group, the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics, which she leads as the NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering at MIT’s School of Engineering and as Professor in EECS. She obtained three Bachelors degrees, M.S. and Sc.D from MIT. Muriel is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Munich, the University of Aalborg, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
