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. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors and Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
