I’m a researcher and engineer. My work and interests span security, privacy, machine learning, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and biologically-inspired computing.
Some of my open source projects include:
- kloak, a privacy tool that obfuscates keystroke and mouse input event timings, making keystroke biometrics and device fingerprinting less effective.
- frailtySurv, an R package for simulating and fitting semiparametric shared frailty models.
- pohmm, a Python package that implements the partially observed hidden Markov model (POHMM).
I currently work on data privacy at OpenAI. Previously, I was a Lead Data Scientist at Visa, Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Computer Scientist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
News
- I joined OpenAI (July 2022)
Old news
- I joined Visa Inc. as a lead data scientist (November 2021)
- Paper on device fingerprinting accepted to S&P’22
- Program Co-Chair of the 2021 SADFE Workshop
- Best Paper @ CHI’20 for work in covert impairments in HCI
- Member of the SecureComm’20 Program Committee
- Paper on scaling up keystroke biometrics accepted to IJCB’20
- Member of the WTMC’20 Program Committee
- Invited talk for the Rotary Club of Corral de Tierra (July 2020)
- Paper on covert impairments in human computer interaction accepted to CHI’20
- Invited talk at the Sunset Center (Carmel, CA), hosted by the Carmel Public Library Foundation (February 2020) [slides]
- Autocomplete side channel paper accepted to USENIX’19
- Member of the WTMC’19 Program Committee
- Invited talk at the 20th Monterey Workshop on Cyber (November 2018)
- Joined NPS as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (August 2018)
- SoK paper on keylogging side channels accepted to S&P’18
- Best Paper @ ISCAS’17 for work on factoring integers with a neuromorphic processor
See also old press.
Students
See Calhoun for a list of theses I advised.
Awards
- Best paper, CHI’20
- Best Paper, ISCAS’17
- Best Paper, UEMCON’17
- Runner-up Neuromorph of the Year, Telluride NCEW’16
- 1st Place, Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition
- 3rd Place, Look & Click Competition
- 1st Place, The Second Eye Movements Verification and Identification Competition
- One of Westchester’s Top Professionals Under 30
Select publications
See the full list and Google Scholar.
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Device Fingerprinting with Peripheral Timestamps
John V. Monaco
43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2022) [pdf] -
Bug or Feature? Covert Impairments to Human Computer Interaction
John V. Monaco
2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) Best Paper Award (top 1%) [pdf] -
What Are You Searching For? A Remote Keylogging Attack on Search Engine Autocomplete
John V. Monaco
28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2019) [pdf] [code] -
SoK: Keylogging Side Channels
John V. Monaco
39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2018) [pdf] -
Factoring Integers with a Brain-Inspired Computer
John V. Monaco, Manuel M. Vindiola
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2017 [pdf] -
The Partially Observable Hidden Markov Model and its Application to Keystroke Dynamics
John V. Monaco, Charles C Tappert
Pattern Recognition, 2017 [pdf]