Robert Soulé

Research

Biography

Robert Soulé is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University. He is also a Principal Visiting Professor at Cerebras Systems. He received his B.A. from Brown University, and his Ph.D. from NYU. After his Ph.D., he was a post-doc at Cornell University. He serves as Editor of SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review. He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE. His work has received several awards, including best paper awards at ACM DEBS 2012, NSDI 2018, and CoNEXT 2020; the 2019 SIGMETRICS Highlights Beyond Sigmetrics; and the 2025 SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award.

Research Group

PhD students

• George Neville-Neil
• Amirmohammad Nazari
• Atul Pokharel

Postdoc alumni

• Haoyu Wang, NEC Research.
• Vishal Shrivastav, Assistant Professor at Purdue University.

PhD student alumni

• Daniele Rogora (co-advised with Antonio Carzaniga), USI PhD December 2020, SoundHound.
• Theo Jepsen USI PhD July 2020, post-doc at Stanford University.
• Pietro Bressana USI PhD July 2020, Intel Coprporation.
• Huynh Tu Dang, USI PhD January 2019, Western Digital Research.

Teaching

Fall 2026

• CPSC 4371/5371: Advanced Databases (Yale, Undergraduate/Graduate):
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2024
  • Spring 2023
  • Fall 2023

Archived

• CPSC 4050/5050: Great Debates in Computer Systems (Yale, Undergraduate/Graduate):
  • Spring 2026
• CPSC 435/435: Build an Internet Router (Yale, Undergraduate/Graduate):
  • Spring 2024
  • Fall 2022
  • Fall 2020
  • Fall 2019 (CPSC 634)
• CPSC 421/521 Compilers and Interpreters (Yale, Undergraduate/Graduate):
  • Spring 2021
  • Spring 2020
• Advanced Networking: Build an Internet Router (USI, Masters):
  • Spring 2019
• Data Management (USI, Undergraduate):
  • Spring 2014
  • Spring 2015
  • Spring 2016
  • Fall 2016
• Advanced Networking (USI, Masters):
  • Fall 2016
• Logic (USI, Graduate):
  • Spring 2016
• Advanced Compilers (USI, Masters):
  • Fall 2015
• Network Programming Languages (USI and Politecnico di Milano, Ph.D.):
  • Spring 2015
  • Fall 2015 (@Polimi)
• Domain Specific Languages (USI, Masters):
  • Fall 2014 (with Nate Nystrom)
• Scripting Languages (Cornell University, Graduate):
  • Fall 2013