Dr. Richard L. Carlson

ICSI researchers Dr. Madelaine Plauché and Joyojeet Pal, along with Divya Ramachandran and Richard Carlson, were awarded third prize in the CITRIS white paper competition for their proposed work on Simple, Scalable Speech technologies to improve access to Information Technologies (IT) in developing regions.
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Plauché, a linguist, and Carlson, a software developer, traveled to Tamil Nadu to meet with Udhaykumar N., a computer science student at Amrita University in Coimbatore and local experts in agriculture, horticulture, and rural development at the MSSRF village resource center in Sempatti.
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With that goal in mind, Plauché, Carlson, and Udhaykumar are currently developing Open Sesame, an open source toolkit which will allow non expert speakers of any dialect to convert local language text into accessible, multi-modal applications using Text-to-Speech, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and custom localization tools.

Mr. Richard Carlson , Sr. Project Manager , Henwood Energy

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Richard Carlson, Ph.D., Director, Risk Analytics Software Products, HENWOOD ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Richard Carlson's experience at Henwood has included development of new tools and techniques for real options valuation of generation assets, econometric analysis of electric energy and ancillary services prices, and modeling of potential market power, including RISKSYM, PositionReporter, and MarketPlace.

Richard L. Carlson, Ph.D. Managing Consultant rlc@levitan.com
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Richard L. Carlson, Ph.D., Managing Consultant

Richard L. Carlson, Ph.D., has 30 years of experience as a consultant, software developer, and research economist on a wide range of energy and environmental economics topics, including market behavior, market volatility, portfolio risk measurement, integrated resource planning, emissions compliance, and rates setting. Dr. Carlson led development of software used for integrated resource planning, emissions compliance, and hydro storage scheduling. Previously, he was product manager of planning and risk software used for power plant valuation, fuels and emissions allowance budgeting, risk management, and other planning applications by electric utilities and generating companies. Dr. Carlson has performed independent market price analyses in support of power plant financings and the auction of purchased power agreements, and has testified in rates and integrated resource planning cases in Maine and Ontario, and on the long-term impacts of fuel ethanol production.

Dr. Carlson received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Resource Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.S. from Washington State University. Prior to joining LAI he worked for 10 years at Ventyx (and its predecessor companies, Global Energy Decisions and Henwood Energy), most recently as Vice President of New Solutions. Before that, he was a consultant at The Goodman Group, Ltd. and Economics Plus, Inc., an assistant professor at Queens College in New York, and a research associate at Washington University.

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Dr. Richard CarlsonRichard is product Manager of Henwood's Enerprise software and Director of its Planning and Risk modules.His experience includes the development of new tools and techniques for long-term capacity expansion optimization, risk-reward optimization, real options valuation of generation assets, econometric analysis of electric energy and ancillary services prices, and modeling of potential market power.He has performed consulting studies for generating company, integrated utility, marketer, ISO/pool and gas storage company clients.

Dr. Richard CarlsonDr. Carlson is product Manager of Henwood's Enerprise software and Director of its Planning and Risk modules.His experience includes the development of new tools and techniques for long-term capacity expansion optimization, risk-reward optimization, real options valuation of generation assets, econometric analysis of electric energy and ancillary services prices, and modeling of potential market power.He has performed consulting studies for generating company, integrated utility, marketer, ISO/pool and gas storage company clients.

Richard Carlson Economics Assistant Professor

Richard Carlson , Economics , Assistant Professor

Richard L. Carlson, Ph.D., Consulting Project Manager, Henwood Energy Services, Inc.

Having a theoretical understanding of price volatility is important, but applying the theory to a real-world market is no small feat.Dr. Carlson will explore several difficult practical modeling and statistical issues with practical examples, including:

Non lognormal distributions, such as Markov regime-switching Term structure of volatility across short to long-term horizons Making use of historical and implied volatility estimates Reconciling fundamental models for expected spot prices with forward prices Modeling Volatility Using Multi-Factor Models: A Practitioner's Approach
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Richard L. Carlson, Ph.D., Consulting Project Manager, Henwood Energy Services, Inc.