John V Monaco

John V. Monaco is a researcher and engineer currently working at OpenAI, focusing on research in the field of data privacy. His interests and work span multiple domains, including security, privacy protection, machine learning, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and bio-inspired computing. Prior to joining OpenAI, he served as Chief Data Scientist at Visa, Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Computer Scientist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. His research achievements have earned multiple Best Paper Awards at international conferences, and he is recognized in both academia and industry. He has also developed several open-source tools, such as kloak (a privacy tool), frailtySurv (an R package), and pohmm (a Python package).

• 2022–Present·OpenAI·Data Privacy Researcher
  • Focused on research and applications in data privacy.
• 2021–2022·Visa Inc.·Chief Data Scientist
  • Led a data science team, working on privacy protection and security-related projects.
• 2018–2021·Naval Postgraduate School·Assistant Professor
  • Research focus included cybersecurity and machine learning.
• 2017–2018·U.S. Army Research Laboratory·Computer Scientist
  • Conducted research and development in security technologies.

• 2010–2015·Naval Postgraduate School·Doctoral Degree
  • Field of Study: Computer Science