Vir Virander Phoha is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at

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College of Engineering and Computer Science. Phoha is known for developing practicable foundations of behavioral biometrics for active and continuous authentication. His research focuses on attack-averse authentication, spoof-resistance, anomaly detection, machine learning, optimized attack formulation, and spatial-temporal pattern detection and event recognition. Phoha's work also provides protection for many classified information systems and his inventions have resulted in the widespread commercial use of active authentication

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methods.

Education

Phoha earned his MSc in

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. He came to the United States in 1988 as a graduate student at

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, where he worked under William J. B. Oldham. His 1992 PhD thesis was titled ''"Self-repair and adaptation in collective and parallel computational networks".''

Career

Phoha began his career as professor of computer science at the ''University of Central Texas'', now the Texas A&M University–Central Texas and was a faculty at

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. Later, he was a professor of computer science and the director of th
Center for Secure Cyberspace
at

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. In 2015, Phoha was appointed professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the ''L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science'' at Syracuse University. Phoha has published 250 papers and six books on security related topics and holds 14 U.S. patents in behavioral authentication. Phoha serves as an associate editor for ''Digital Threats: Research and Practice'' and ''Transactions on Computational Social Systems'' journals.

Awards

In 2008, Phoha was selected as a ''distinguished scientist'' by the

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. In 2017, Phoha was awarded the ''IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academia Award'' for his contributions to authentication using behavioral biometrics. He is also a fellow of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS). In 2018 He was elected as Fellow at the

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. In 2020, Phoha was elected as a

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fellow. In 2022, he was named IEEE Fellow.

References

External links

Official Website
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