Robert Soulé
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Additional Appointments
- Electrical & Computer Engineering
Room / Office:
Dunham 408
Office Address:
10 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208285
New Haven, CT 06520
About Robert Soulé
Degrees
- Ph.D., New York University
- B.A., Brown University
Perspectives
- Networking, distributed systems, databases, and programming languages.
Selected Awards & Honors
- USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) Best Paper Award (2018)
- ACM Distinguished Member (2025)
- SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award (2025)
Selected Publications
- The Case For In-Network Computing On Demand. Yuta Tokusashi, Huynh Tu Dang, Fernando Pedone, Robert Soulé, and Noa Zilberman. 2019 European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '19), March 2019.
- p4v: Practical Verification for Programmable Data Planes. Calin Cascaval, Nate Foster, William Hallahan, Jeongkeun Lee, Jed Liu, Nick McKeown, Cole Schlesinger, Milad Sharif, Robert Soulé, and Han Wang. 2018 ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM '18), August 2018.
- NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination. Xin Jin, Xiaozhou Li, Haoyu Zhang, Nate Foster, Jeongkeun Lee, Robert Soulé, Changhoon Kim, and Ion Stoica. 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '18), April 2018. Best Paper Award.
- Accio: Rethinking OS-Architecture Co-Design for Next-Gen I/O. Amirmohammad Nazari,Rajit Manohar, and Robert Soulé. NINeS ’26, February 2026.
- OSDB: Exposing the Operating System’s Inner Database. Robert Soulé, George Neville-Neil, Stelios Kasouridis, Alex Yuan, Avi Silberschatz, and Peter Alvaro. CIDR ’25, Jan. 2025.

