Vincent Mooney attended Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1991. He then traveled to San Sebastian, Spain, to attend the University of Navarra, obtaining a Certificate of Graduate Study in 1992. Mooney continued his education at Stanford University, earning a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and a Master of Arts in Philosophy in 1997, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1998. He joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1998. His research interests include System Level Design, Hardware-Software Co-Design, Synthesis, Reconfigurable Architectures, Logic Synthesis, and Application-Specific System Design, with a focus on low-power architectures, modeling, and compilers.