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Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Market Assessment and Compliance DivisionAssessed the market design and the efficiency of the wholesale electricity market of Ontario. Conducted market impact assessment in the enforcement of market rules and the investigations of non-compliance of market participants.

Melbourne, Australia

• Conducted long term wholesale electricity market modelling using Plexos, including generation capacity expansion, generation volume, market price and intra-day shape
• Coordinated with internal stakeholders to support commercial assessment of new asset development opportunities, valuation of existing assets, valuation of structured products, and business planning
• Studied and tested strategic behaviour modelling capabilities of Plexos to improve on pricemodelling; developed new Tableau reports to provide insights on simulation output

Melbourne, Australia

• Provided risk oversight to the energy trading operations through various risk reporting on portfolio position, hedging strategy compliance, and communications with traders; built new position reporting tools to.
• Back tested the fitness of risk limits and assumptions underlying risk measures; presented the findings and recommendations to risk committees
• Improved electricity and gas spot market risk tools and methodologies; strengthened operational procedures by uncovering shortfalls
• Conducted earnings at risk analysis for wholesale electricity business through simulations that combine load, generation, spot prices, and financial contracts

Melbourne, Australia

Led the business energy consumption forecast. Developed forecast of annual business gas consumption for eastern states of Australia over 20-year outlook period, as part of the National Gas Forecasting Report.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Collaborated with team to provide analytic support for policy and planning issues associated with wholesale energy procurement. Selected Project Experience: 1) Load Forecast Uncertainty Modeling for Renewable Portfolio.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Examined demand-side management to address the uncertainty of renewable energy sources, mainly wind generation, in wholesale electricity market; conducted simulations based on a multi-period Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow model; evaluated potential contributions of distributed storage capacity at load centers in lowering total system.

Ithaca, New York Area

Valuation of Capital Investment courseLed weekly sections of 46 students to strengthen understanding of various equity valuation models, including dividend discount model, free cash flow model, residual income model

Ithaca, New York Area

Assisted professor in research on branding strategies and consumer valuation of new apple variety; facilitated laboratory experiments with 194 participants; analyzed collected data with Tobit model; coauthored paper published in the journal Agribusiness

Tucson, Arizona Area

Conducted research on crop insurance pricing; applied biometrical methodology to predict probability distribution of corn yield; improved the accuracy of crop insurance premium rates

Tucson, Arizona Area

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Economics And Management

Dissertation: “The Economics of Demand Aggregators in Electricity Markets”

Master'S Degree, Agricultural And Resource Economics

Thesis: “Seminonparametric Estimation of Conditional Yield Densities”

Bachelor'S Degree, Financial Engineering, Mathematics

High School