Dennis received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 investigating materials thermodynamics using inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio computational methods. He joined the Coherent Imaging Group as the STROBE postdoctoral fellow in the summer of 2017 and plans to utilize the group's recent advances in imaging techniques to study various materials and their properties.