Muriel Médard

Muriel Médard is the co-founder and CEO of Optimum, the high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain. She is the co-inventor of RLNC—the technology behind Optimum, spun out of over two decades of MIT research —and holds the NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering at MIT. Muriel is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.