{"id":1486,"date":"2025-07-30T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=210300"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:49:33","slug":"ashley-peper","status":"publish","type":"uwsp_directory","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/directory\/profile\/ashley-peper\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Peper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BIO<\/h2>\n<p>The UW-Stevens Point Department of Computing and New Media Technologies welcomed Ashley Peper as a faculty member, five years after she graduated from UWSP, in 2020. Peper previously taught at UW-Madison where she earned her doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Her primary area of interest is in operations research. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CV-Peper.pdf\">View CV<\/a>.\u00a0 She looks forward to teaching students at her alma mater. Coming full circle, Peper will oversee the student-run Center for Athletic Scheduling (CAS) where students problem solve and design custom schedules for collegiate teams. She enjoyed the three years she worked as a modeler for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/smcpa\/school-of-mathematics-computing-physics-and-astronomy\/center-for-athletic-scheduling\/\">CAS<\/a>, coming up with<span class=\"TextRun SCXW169704794 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169704794 BCX2\">\u00a0ways <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW169704794 BCX2\">to<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169704794 BCX2\"> make the models <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW169704794 BCX2\">work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>SELECT PUBLICATIONS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Peper, A.,<\/strong> Albert, L. A., &amp; Luedtke, J. Selecting and Scheduling Mitigations to Protect Critical Infrastructure under Resource Constraints. <em>In review at Naval Research Logistics. <\/em>(Revision submitted 10\/02\/2025).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peper, A<\/strong>. <em>Scheduling Mitigations to Protect Critical Infrastructure Under Resource Constraints<\/em>. PhD thesis, The University of Wisconsin-<em>Madison<\/em>, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>DuBois, E., <strong>Peper, A<\/strong>., &amp; Albert, L. A. (2023). <em>Interdicting Attack Plans with Boundedly Rational Players and Multiple Attackers: An Adversarial Risk Analysis Approach<\/em>.\u00a0Decision Analysis,\u00a020(3), 202-219.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peper, A.,<\/strong> Albert, L. A., &amp; Luedtke, J. <em>Scheduling Mitigations to Delay Attacker Projects<\/em>. (Working Paper)<\/p>\n<h3>PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)<\/li>\n<li>Mixed Integer Programming Society (MIPS)<\/li>\n<li>INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO The UW-Stevens Point Department of Computing and New Media Technologies welcomed Ashley Peper as a faculty member, five years after she graduated from UWSP, in 2020. Peper previously taught at UW-Madison where she earned her doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Her primary area of interest is in operations research. 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