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Mr. Stephen Chapel has managed several
highly successful projects for the
Utility industry. He has expert knowledge
of the utility business analysis methods
combined with proven problem solving
and analytical capabilities. He is
well known for his ability to take
projects from the conceptual stage
to a practical implementation that
has aided numerous utilities make
better investment and operational
decisions. Besides several journal
articles and white papers he is also
a co-author (with Mukund Thapa) of
a soon to be published book on programming
using C and C++ Pointers.
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| Dr.
Mukund N. Thapa,
President,
Stanford Business
Software, Inc.;
Consulting
Professor,
Stanford University |
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Dr.
Thapa has been developing
custom numerically robust,
computationally efficient
software for analytical
models for over 20 years.
He holds a consulting
faculty appointment at
the Department of EESOR,
Stanford University and
has co-authored books
on linear programming
(with George Dantzig)
and soon to be published
book on C pointers (with
Steve Chapel). His areas
of expertise include:
mathematical programming,
numerical algorithms,
and GUIs
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Dr. Lesser has over twenty
years’ experience in
the energy industry working
for utilities, industry,
and government. Dr. Lesser
also frequently serves as
an expert witness on regulated
cost of capital, the prudence
of utility capital investments,
and valuation of electric
generating assets. Dr. Lesser
is widely published in both
the academic and trade press,
and is the author of Environmental
Economics and Policy.
His areas of expertise include
economic, econometric, and
statistical analysis, decision
analysis and stochastic modeling
for capital investments,
risk management and strategy
development, and benefit-cost
analysis.
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Dr.
Morris has
over 25 years
experience
in the research,
teaching
and application
of decision
analysis
and quantitative
modeling.
Since 1971,
he has held
a part-time
appointment
as professor
in the Department
of Engineering-Economic
Systems and
Operations
Research
at Stanford
University
where he
teaches the
art of mathematical
modeling
and probabilistic
systems.
His areas
of expertise
include decision
and risk
analysis,
real option
valuation,
probabilistic
analysis
and mathematical
modeling.
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Dr.
Charles D.
Feinstein
is a member
of the faculty
at Santa
Clara University
(OMIS) and
Stanford
University
(EESOR).
His main
academic
interests
are optimization,
investment
decision
theory and
practice,
applied mathematics,
and mathematical
modeling.
He has published
papers and
monographs
on various
aspects of
electric
utility investment
planning,
with particular
attention
to distribution
systems and
distributed
resources.
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Dr.
Miley W.
(Lee) Merkhofer
specializes
in providing
commercial
and government
clients systems
for prioritizing
projects
and optimally
allocating
resources.
He has developed
dozens of
priority
systems,
taught courses
on the subject,
and received professional awards for his work in the
area. He is the author of the book Decision Science
and Social Risk Management (Reidel Publishing Co.)
and coauthor of the book Risk Assessment Methods (with
V. Covello, Plenum Press). Dr. Merkhofer received
a B.S. degree in Physics, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering,
and a Ph.D. in Engineering Economic Systems, all from
Stanford University.
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