Muriel Medard is co-founder and CEO of Optimum, to optimize decentralized latency and bandwidth in Web 3. The company is a spin-out of over two decades of research and development from her group at MIT, the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics, which she leads as holder of the NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering at MIT and as Professor in EECS. She obtained three Bachelors degrees, her M.S. and Sc.D, all 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.
