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Vice President of Quantitative Analytics
EDF Energy North America
Monday, 06 April 2020, 9.55 AM
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Houston is widely regarded as the energy capital of the world, and is home to several energy trading companies, including EDF. This talk will provide an overview of derivative pricing and quantitative modeling in the Power and Gas industry. We will discuss
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Dr. <b>Wang Chiu</b> is currently the Vice President of Quantitative Analytics at EDF Energy NA (since May 2018). Dr. Chiu holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from Texas A&M University (1997). His research area is probability and stochastic processes. Before joining
EDF Energy NA, he worked for several other energy companies including Dynegy, Cinergy and Reliant Energy. Throughout his career, he has built quantitative analytical models for merchant power and gas companies. His expertise is in real option models for physical
assets, such as power plant and natural gas storage. They help companies optimize, manage and monetize physical assets.
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<b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">Harish Sarma Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Assistant Professor, ECE Department</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:red">University of Houston</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Email: <a href="mailto:hskrishnamoorthy@uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">hskrishn@uh.edu</span></a><br>
Phone: +1-713-743-7382</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.ee.uh.edu/faculty/krishnamoorthy"><span style="color:blue">UH</span></a>,
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/harishsarmak"><span style="color:blue">LinkedIn</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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