HIAS is a refugee resettlement agency that works with 19 affiliate locations to resettle refugee populations throughout the United States. Our project provided alternative viewpoints to augment the way HIAS resettles refugees, including a proof of concept for optimizing refugee placement by analyzing refugee and location-based data. We identified complementary cities that could be added to HIAS’s network by using clustering algorithms. Finally, we improved the accuracy of Annie, a refugee placement model, by developing scripts to extract location-specific data.

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Creator

• Joy, Toni J
• Esquivel, Roberto
• Miralda, Jean-Philippe
• Vandervort, Jennifer L

Contributors

• Industrial Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032119-133846

Advisor

• Trapp, Andrew C

Year

• 2019

Sponsor

• Professor Trapp

Date created

• 2019-03-21

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Industrial Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright