Vinnie Monaco
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVinnie Monaco is a researcher-engineer with 13 years of experience at the intersection of security, privacy, machine learning, and human-computer interaction, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines academic rigor—PhD and faculty experience—with applied impact from roles at Visa and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, translating research into production and policy-relevant systems. Vinnie publishes and maintains open-source tools that reflect his focus on privacy and probabilistic modeling, including kloak for obfuscating input-event timings, frailtySurv for survival-frailty models in R, and pohmm, a Python POHMM implementation. His work often blends biologically inspired computation with practical defenses against biometric fingerprinting, an unusual mix that informs both offensive and defensive perspectives. Comfortable moving between code, papers, and product, he brings a systems-minded approach to problems in AI safety and user privacy. For more, he curates projects and writings at vmonaco.com.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Pace University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
circle-detection9
kernel9
moodle8
transform8
portal8
fourier-transform8
learning-management-system7
entropy7
mhealth6
machine-learning6
python6
lms6
elearning6
convolution5
gymnasium4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vmonaco/pytruenorth
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Python package to train, deploy, and communicate with TrueNorth
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 10 months
communicatepython-packagepythontrain
vmonaco/vmonaco.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:73 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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