Stephen Mislich

My interests include partial differential equations and the finite element method. All programming is done with either MATLAB or Mathematica. My advisor, Dr. So-Hsiang Chou, is a specialist in his field of differential equations and fluid dynamics.

I worked as a student IT technician solving both hardware and software computer problems for faculty and staff.

I worked in a group of 2 others developing a program in MATLAB that creates CAPTCHAs simulating human handwriting. English, German, French and Spanish CAPTCHAs were created in this same way and implemented on a website. The results showed that handwritten CAPTCHAs do a significantly better job at keeping out computers than machine-printed text CAPTCHAs. This resulted in a paper published in the Information Visualization journal titled "A Multilingual Handwritten Approach to CAPTCHA."

I work under Dr. So-Hsiang Chou studying the finite element method, in particular the Galerkin and Ritz-Galerkin methods. I took an independent course with the same professor studying the method of characteristics. My master's thesis is on Timoshenko beam theory.

I graduated Magna Cum Laude. My thesis was titled "Security of CAPTCHA."