Network Coding for Engineers

Muriel Médard, PhD, is NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department and Head of the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, among other organizations, and is a past president of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Vipindev Adat Vasudevan, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He has previously worked as an MSCA Fellow in the Wireless Telecommunications Laboratory of the University of Patras, Greece, and has researched extensively into network coding, network security, 5G, and related subjects.

Morten Videbæk Pedersen, PhD, is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Steinwurf APS, a company specializing in industrial-grade high-performance content distribution systems, where he focuses on low-complexity network coding algorithms and cooperative networking programs. He is a member of the Mobile Devices Research Group, Aalborg, Denmark, and a past recipient of the Forum Nokia Developer Champion Award.

Ken R. Duffy, PhD, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Professor of Mathematics, at Northeastern University (NU), USA. He leads the Engineering Probability Information and Communications Laboratory and is core faculty at NU’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things. He was previously the Director of the Hamilton Institute at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and a co-director of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science.