William Echols

I'm an incoming Ph.D. student in Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (CMOR) at Rice University, starting Fall 2026. Before Rice, I obtained a B.A. in Mathematics with an emphasis in Operations Research from UC Berkeley.

Publications

• S. C. Bhamidipati, W. Echols, J. Lopez Olivares, K. Markley, S. Srinivas, and P. Calyam. "Edge-Enabled Scalable Routing via Graph Neural Network Pruning and Metaheuristic Optimization", Proc. 10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC '25), 2025.

Contact

Email: wde2@rice.edu
ORCID: 0009-0000-7275-044X