[1] Phoha is known for developing practicable foundations of behavioral biometrics for active and continuous authentication.
Phoha's work also provides protection for many classified information systems and his inventions have resulted in the widespread commercial use of active authentication biometric methods.
His 1992 PhD thesis was titled "Self-repair and adaptation in collective and parallel computational networks".
[13] Phoha has published 250 papers and six books on security related topics and holds 14 U.S. patents in behavioral authentication.
[8] Phoha serves as an associate editor for Digital Threats: Research and Practice and Transactions on Computational Social Systems journals.