{"id":5773,"date":"2026-04-06T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:48:59","slug":"cem-awards-four-srinivasan-family-grants-for-projects-in-emerging-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/news\/cem-awards-four-srinivasan-family-grants-for-projects-in-emerging-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"CEM Awards Five Srinivasan Family Grants for Projects in Emerging Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">The Center for Emerging Markets (CEM) is pleased to announce the spring 2026 recipients of the Srinivasan Family Awards for Student Projects in Emerging Markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Made possible through the generous support of Venkat and Pratima Srinivasan, this program provides undergraduate and graduate students at Northeastern University with funding to pursue projects that address real challenges in emerging economies around the world. Students may seek funding to conduct research, launch startups, implement service-learning projects, organize conferences, or pursue other innovative initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This semester, CEM funded five projects spanning healthcare, infrastructure finance, clean energy, and digital health across Ghana, West Africa, Kenya, India and South Korea. Grant recipients represent four colleges and schools at Northeastern University. The program has now supported 51 student projects and 68 students over the past nine semesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/emerging-markets\/work\/student-learning\/student-grants\/\">Srinivasan Family Awards at the Center for Emerging Markets.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spring 2026 Grant Recipients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Alpha Oumar Diallo<\/strong><br>D'Amore-McKim School of Business, '27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--1040x1040.png 1040w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo--520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Alpha-Oumar-Diallo-.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item\">\n\t<button class=\"accordion-header wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__header\" type=\"button\">\n\t\tResearch: Examining how private capital navigates uncertainty in emerging market infrastructure deals\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div class=\"accordion-content wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__content\">\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Alpha Oumar Diallo is an MBA candidate in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business with concentrations in Corporate Finance and Artificial Intelligence. Before coming to Northeastern, he spent nearly two years at PwC Guinea (now Baker Tilly Guinea) as a Deals and Strategy Associate, where he worked on infrastructure transactions across West Africa totaling over $1 billion in capital investment. That experience, structuring road concessions, port deals, and public-sector projects in environments where standard financial data is limited or unreliable, became the foundation for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Alpha's research will produce three to five detailed case studies examining how private capital actually gets deployed in emerging market infrastructure deals. His central question is one that standard financial models cannot answer: how do investors make decisions when the data they normally rely on does not exist? Each case study will trace the full arc of a deal, from the initial decision to invest, through how the transaction was structured, to what happened when conditions changed. Alpha will conduct interviews with fund managers, development finance institution officers, government counterparties, and advisors across at least two emerging market regions, drawing on both his professional network and new relationships built through the research process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The project aims to produce a research paper and a practitioner brief that development finance institutions and infrastructure investors can use to inform future capital deployment in markets that are often labeled too risky to enter.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Chigozirim Ike<\/strong><br>D'Amore-McKim School of Business, '27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-1040x1040.png 1040w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Chigozirim-Ike.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item\">\n\t<button class=\"accordion-header wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__header\" type=\"button\">\n\t\tResearch: Building a geospatial analysis of Kenya's renewable energy infrastructure to identify investment gaps\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div class=\"accordion-content wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__content\">\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Chigozirim Ike is a Data Science and Business Administration student in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and an incoming Machine Learning Engineering Intern at GE Vernova. His project focuses on a fundamental challenge across sub-Saharan Africa: even as countries like Kenya have made major progress in renewable energy, many communities still lack reliable electricity, and it is not always clear where new investment would do the most good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">To address this, Chigozirim will build a comprehensive dataset of Kenya's renewable energy infrastructure, including electrification rates, grid coverage, and energy capacity by region. Using geospatial analysis and statistical modeling tools, he will map where infrastructure gaps are largest and where targeted investment could have the greatest impact on electricity access. He will also attend conferences focused on African innovation and development to connect his data work with the perspectives of entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers working in this space firsthand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The project will culminate in a research report and a data visualization dashboard summarizing his findings, which he plans to present to the Northeastern community. The insights are intended to be useful to policymakers, development organizations, and investors looking for data-driven guidance on where to direct resources in Kenya's energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Aryan Sinha<\/strong><br>Khoury College of Computer Sciences, '28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-1040x1040.png 1040w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/IGH-2026-recipients-1.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item\">\n\t<button class=\"accordion-header wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__header\" type=\"button\">\n\t\tSocial Project: Creating an AI model that delivers timely price predictions to smallholder farmers in India via SMS messages\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div class=\"accordion-content wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__content\">\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Aryan Sinha is a Computer Engineering and Computer Science student in the College of Engineering and Khoury College of Computer Sciences, with minors in Mathematics and Business Administration. He has worked as a quantitative equity and options trading intern at Orion Alpha Asset Management, a fixed income trading intern at Tigress Financial Services, and a crypto analytics intern at CoinLedger, building data pipelines for financial forecasting, trade surveillance, and reconciliation systems. He also serves as Director of Quant at Disrupt, Northeastern's fintech club, and conducts NLP and financial stress research under Professors Oet and Chiou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Aryan's project, HarvestSignal, addresses a persistent problem facing smallholder farmers in emerging markets: the lack of accessible, forward-looking price information at the point of sale. Using commodity price data, weather forecasts, and satellite-derived crop health indicators, HarvestSignal builds a machine learning model that delivers weekly price predictions via SMS \u2013&nbsp;requiring only a basic mobile phone. The pilot will partner with Kaushalya Foundation in Bihar, India to reach farming households and measure whether timely price signals improve selling decisions and income.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Yejin Yang<\/strong><br>Bouv\u00e9 College of Health Sciences, PharmD '30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-1040x1040.png 1040w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/Yejin-Yang.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item\">\n\t<button class=\"accordion-header wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__header\" type=\"button\">\n\t\tResearch: Studying how digital health services are integrated into healthcare environments in Seoul, South Korea\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div class=\"accordion-content wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__content\">\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Yejin Yang is a Doctor of Pharmacy student in the Bouv\u00e9 College of Health Sciences with additional coursework in cell and molecular biology. She grew up in South Korea and has prior research experience studying health communication and traditional medicine practices there. Her project examines a question that has become increasingly relevant as countries around the world expand digital health services: does the way those services are designed and displayed in real healthcare settings actually help patients use them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">South Korea offers a useful place to study this question. It has one of the most advanced digital healthcare systems in the world, with widespread use of telemedicine, online appointment platforms, mobile health applications, and digital kiosks. But advanced infrastructure does not automatically mean easy access. Research has found that many patients in South Korea, particularly older adults, experience difficulty and stress when navigating digital health systems in clinical settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Yejin will conduct structured observations across hospitals, clinics, and public health centers in four districts of Seoul, documenting how digital health tools are presented, how clearly they guide patients, and whether their design supports or limits access to care. The project will produce a research paper, a visual documentation portfolio, and a policy brief examining what her findings suggest for how healthcare environments in digitally expanding countries should think about accessible design.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Innovators for Global Health<\/strong><br>College of Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-1040x1040.png 1040w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients-520x520.png 520w, https:\/\/damore-mckim.northeastern.edu\/cem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/IGH-2026-recipients.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item\">\n\t<button class=\"accordion-header wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__header\" type=\"button\">\n\t\tService-Learning: Commercializing and scaling medical devices for healthcare facilities in Ghana\t<\/button>\n\n\t<div class=\"accordion-content wp-block-dmsb-advanced-accordion-item__content\">\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Innovators for Global Health (IGH) is a Northeastern student organization that designs low-cost medical devices for healthcare facilities in Ghana. Led this year by Lauren Ayres, Sarah Juvera, and Saule Kairyte, all members of the class of 2027, the organization is receiving Srinivasan Family Award funding for the fourth consecutive year. Each prior cycle has supported a different phase of what has become a long-term, in-country partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Over the past four years, IGH has built working relationships with four Ghanaian hospitals and health centers, established student chapters at three Ghanaian universities, and delivered a series of functional prototypes designed to address equipment shortages identified directly by clinical staff. During a trip to Ghana in March 2026, eight Northeastern students and a faculty advisor delivered completed devices, conducted needs assessments, and held a joint event with partner university chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This year's initiative marks a new stage for the organization. Rather than focusing primarily on prototyping new devices, IGH will concentrate on moving existing ones toward commercialization and broader use. Two devices are at the center of this effort: a neonatal phototherapy unit designed to treat jaundice in newborns, and a maternal wellness mobile app that was deployed to staff at one partner health center this year and is now being adapted for use at additional clinics. The team will also develop new prototypes identified through their most recent needs assessment, including detachable stirrups for gynecological care and an oxygen purity analyzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Alongside its device work, IGH has established a new partnership with MakersPlace, a community center in Accra that provides engineering and science education to young students. Through this collaboration, IGH members will engage local youth in hands-on learning connected to health technology and problem-solving. A team trip to Ghana is planned for March 2027 to deliver completed devices, engage with regulatory partners, and conduct the next round of needs assessments.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, CEM funded five outstanding projects spanning healthcare, infrastructure finance, energy access, and digital health. 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