Biography

Dennis Gardner obtained his physics Bachelor’s degree with Summa cum Laude honors from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010. Dennis stayed at CU Boulder for his graduate work and joined the Kapteyn-Murnane group. His dissertation focused on high-resolution imaging using extreme ultraviolet light. While studying, Dennis was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Computational Optics Sensing and Imaging traineeship, and a Ford Foundation fellowship. Dennis’s Ph.D. thesis, titled “Coherent Diffractive Imaging Near the Spatio-Temporal Limit with High-Harmonic Sources,” won the Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society.

After completing his Ph.D. in 2017, Dennis joined the Applied Optics Branch at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. His work focused on using computational imaging techniques to address long standing problems such as imaging through scattering media, turbulence mitigation, and non-line-of-sight imaging. While at NRL, Dennis was supported by a NRL Karl Fellowship and won an Alan Berman Research Publication Award.

In January 2020, Dennis joined the Computational Imaging Group at MITRE. His current interests include algorithm development (MATLAB, python, C/C++, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives), lensless imaging, ptychography, phase retrieval, holography, adaptive optics, spatial light modulators, ultrafast dynamics, Fourier optics, and structured illumination.

Dennis is married to Corinne Beier, Ph.D. (@CorinneBeier), a neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health. Outside of work, Dennis enjoys running, hiking, cycling, skiing, and camping. Dennis and Corinne are the happy owners of Quanta, their cat, and Kylo, their dog.