Born in 1968, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, came to United States in 1983, attended Reading Memorial High in Reading Massachusetts, then received BS and MS in EE from University of Massachusetts in Amherst. In his senior year at UMass, Dennis with his college friend Adam Lavine founded Specular International, Inc., a special 3-D graphics software company which has won numerous technical and product awards in the software industry. Specular has recently been acquired by Metacreation of California. Dennis now resides in Princeton New Jersey.