{"id":2389,"date":"2025-02-20T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meyn.ece.ufl.edu\/?page_id=2389"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:20:40","slug":"what-can-you-do-with-a-soft-input-soft-output-decoder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/what-can-you-do-with-a-soft-input-soft-output-decoder\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the Fastest Decentralized Internet Protocol for Web3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muriel Medard<\/a> (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<\/h3>\n

Abstract: <\/strong>Central to Web3 is the data access aspect. Two core elements underpin that data access. The first is the propagation, where data is shared among validators to achieve consensus, or captured by block builders to create valuable blocks. The second is the checking of availability of data in lieu of actually accessing the data per se. This check, generally effected through codes used as hashes in the sampling of nodes, is generally called the data availability (DA) problem. Using network coding by leveraging Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) allows improvement of both of these mechanisms. For data propagation, a Turbo approach allows us to use RLNC natively or in a hybrid manner with other existing propagation protocols. For DA, we can use RLNC to create an online system that radically reduces the sampling frequency. We discuss how these approaches enable a more decentralized, robust ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Bio: Muriel M\u00e9dard<\/strong>\u00a0is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she leads research in network coding and reliable communications within electrical engineering and computer science. A pioneer in information theory and wireless networks, her work has significantly advanced data transmission reliability across modern communication systems. M\u00e9dard has been widely recognized for her impact, including election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Most recently, she received the 2026 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, one of IEEE\u2019s highest honors, for her contributions to coding for reliable communications and networking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She is the co-founder of Optimum, on leave from MIT, where she holds the NEC Chair of Software Science and Engineering for the School of Engineering at MIT, and is a Professor in EECS. She obtained three Bachelors degrees, her M.S. and Sc.D, all from MIT. Muriel 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 Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Munich (2020), the University of Aalborg (2022) and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (2023). Muriel was awarded the 2022 IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. She has received multiple best paper award, including the Sigcomm 2018 Test of Time Award. Muriel served as the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and was EiC of IEEE JSAC. She was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Muriel received the inaugural MIT Postdoctoral Association Mentoring Award in 2022, the inaugural MIT EECS Graduate Student Association Mentor Award, voted by the students, in 2013. She set up the Women in the Information Theory Society (WithITS) and Information Theory Society Mentoring Program. She was recognized with the 2017 IEEE Aaron Wyner Distinguished Service Award. \u00a0 Muriel has over seventy US and international patents awarded, the vast majority of which have been licensed or acquired. Muriel has supervised over 40 master students, over 20 doctoral students and over 25 postdoctoral fellows. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muriel Medard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Abstract: Central to Web3 is the data access aspect. Two core elements underpin that data access. The first is the propagation, where data is shared among validators to achieve consensus, or captured by block builders to create valuable blocks. The second is the checking of availability of data in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1347,"featured_media":0,"parent":2631,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2389\/revisions\/2851"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}