She is the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is known for her research in network coding.
Médard earned a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1989, with a double major in mathematics and electrical engineering.
Her dissertation was Capacity of Multiple User Time Varying Channels in Wireless Communications and was supervised by Robert G.
[4] She is also the former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,[5] and the co-founder of the companies CodeOn, Steinwurf and Chocolate Cloud.
In 2017 she won the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society,[4] and the Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society "for pioneering work in the fields of network coding, wireless communications, and optical networking".