Denna is from Wyoming and is a senior majoring in Computer Science. She has been awarded several academic scholarships, including the National Merit Scholarship and several talent awards from the BYU School of Music. Denna joined the lab in Fall 2011 and was awarded an ORCA grant to study generating musical accompaniment to real-time improvisation of a soloist. Her research interests include machine learning through bipartite graph partitioning, feedback-control applications of language learning, and computer science perspectives on music composition. After graduating Denna went to work for a software company.