Muriel Medard is a NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering at MIT at Optimum. She possess expertise in algorithms, information theory, mathematical modeling, machine learning, signal processing and 18 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "It was a great pleasure to work with Muriel. I believe she is one of the best minds today in Information Theory and Network Theory, and is able to think fundamentally in these fields in a way that very few people can. I admire both the rate at which she arrives at important results and the way she makes them seem easy by her positive, cheerful attitude. Her cheerful and thoughtful attitude extends all the way from advanced research and applications, to teaching, and to mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. She is one of the most well-rounded academicians I have ever met." and "Muriel is a great scientist in the area of communication and information theory. She has made great fundamental contributions in many aspects of this area, including time-varying channels, fading channels, and networking. She is also very personable, which makes her a very good advisor to undergraduate and graduate students. One thing that should not be overlooked is her ability to be a technical leader in bringing a group of researchers together. The success (and establishment) stemming from her pioneering publications is evidence of this."