Hello,
This is to inform you that Namesh Killemsetty, a 2021 PhD graduate of University of Massachusetts Boston, received the Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award at the 2022 conference of Urban Affairs Association for his dissertation "Assessment of Housing Mismatch: Learning from Slum Communities in Small Cities in India". Namesh presented results from his dissertation at the 2021 INFORMS national conference, in a PSOR co-sponsored session. That talk, titled "Use of CBOR to Understand Housing Priorities of Slum Dwellers in India", is the basis for a paper which recently appeared in European Journal of Operational Resarch. That paper can be found at
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.06.055.
Sincerely,
Michael
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Michael Johnson
Professor and Department Chair
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston MA
michael.johnson@umb.edu------------------------------