Muriel Médard is CEO and co-founder of Spice Solution INC and the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT and Chief Scientist for Steinwurf, which she has co-founded.

She obtained three bachelor's degrees (EECS 1989, Mathematics 1989, and Humanities 1991), as well as her M.S. (1991) and Sc.D (1995), all from MIT.

Médard is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (elected 2020), a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (elected 2022), a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (elected 2018), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2021), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (elected 2008). She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Technical University of Munich (2020) and The University of Aalborg (2022).