Dennis Gardner
Solution Lead Senior Principal at MITRE
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Gardner is a principal scientific director and computational imaging expert with nine years of research and leadership experience applying physics, optics, and machine learning to real-world sensing challenges. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from CU Boulder, where his award-winning dissertation advanced high-resolution extreme-ultraviolet lensless imaging and coherent diffractive techniques. At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and MITRE he translated computational imaging and phase-retrieval algorithms into solutions for scattering, turbulence mitigation, and non-line-of-sight imaging, and later led EO remote sensing and cloud-scale computer vision efforts in industry. Known for bridging deep technical rigor with systems thinking, he combines hands-on algorithm development (MATLAB, Python, C/C++) with systems engineering and rapid transition strategies to move lab innovations into operational use. An NSF and Ford Foundation–supported scientist with multiple fellowships and publication awards, he also brings uncommon fluency in both ultrafast optics and product-oriented solution delivery.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at University of Colorado at BoulderDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Colorado BoulderProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DennisFGardner-zz/imageCorrelation
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 PRs, 48 pushes, 17 branches in 21 days
pythonimage-processingpatternsdiffractionchanges
DennisFGardner-zz/ImageSharpening
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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