b. Madison, WI
Lives and works in Kirkland, WA
Education
PhD Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, 2022
BS Imaging Science (Minor Computer Science), Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009
Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Carleton College, 2005
Recent Continuing Education
MIT xPro Quantum Computing Fundamentals (4 CEUs), 2025
MIT xPro Quantum Computing Realities (4 CEUs), 2025
Art Exhibitions
2025
The True Butterfly Effect, Slip Gallery, Seattle, WA
Gnothi Seauton (know thyself), Happy Time Studio, Issaquah, WA
Visual Impressions 2025, Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA
Avant Garden 2025, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Intersections: Math, Art, Truth, Humanity, Seattle Universal Math Museum and MIVAL Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
Explorations in Abstraction, Seattle Artist League Gallery
Bridges Math Art Exhibition at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
2024
Holiday Art Market 2024, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Threshold of Wonder, ArtMa Popup Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Sugar High, Nino Studio, Seattle WA
Grateful, Nino Studio, Seattle WA
August Gallery Presentation, Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA
Valentine’s Day Show, Design Within Reach, Seattle, WA
2023
Awkward Contrasts, Nino Studio, Seattle WA
Lush Computation, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle WA
Visual Impressions 2023, Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA - Curator’s Award
One Last Time, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2022
Holiday Art Market 2022, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Nature & Technology, an Inevitable Interconnectedness (Online), Visionary Art Collective
Rhythm, Motion, and Life, Artrepreneur (Online) - Winner
SYSTEMS, Artrepreneur (Online) - Honorable Mention
Figure of Speech, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Quiet, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
In Comfort of Chaos, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2021
Holiday Art Market 2021, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Prelude, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Scientific Publications
Methods and applications for portrait selection from video, light field photography, and light field video editing, PhD Thesis, 2022. Committee: Brian Curless, Richard Szeliski, Joshua Smith.
Light field layer matting by Juliet Fiss, Brian Curless, and Richard Szeliski at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015.
Refocusing plenoptic images using depth-adaptive splatting by Juliet Fiss, Brian Curless, and Richard Szeliski at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2014.
Mining text snippets for images on the web by Anitha Kannan, Simon Baker, Krishnan Ramnath, Juliet Fiss, Dahua Lin, Lucy Vanderwende, Rizwan Ansary, Ashish Kapoor, Qifa Ke, Matt Uyttendaele, Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2014.
Candid portrait selection from video by Juliet Fiss, Aseem Agarwala, and Brian Curless in the ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2011).
Art publications and Press
2026 Calendar of Mathematical Imagery by American Mathematical Society (2026).
Birthday Greeting Cards by American Mathematical Society (2025).
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 14 (2025).
King 5 Evening Magazine, Mercer Island’s ‘Intersections’ exhibit blends math and art (2025).
Mercer Island City Lifestyle Magazine, Invest in SUMMthing Exponential: Compound Your Interest in Art + Math! by Tracy Drinkwater (2025).
Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, Meet the Capitol Hill Artist | Juliet Fiss creates a Lush Computation with details precisely placed by Ananya Mishra (2023).
Seattle Collegian, Lush Computation: bridging the gap between technology and humanity through art, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery’s Fall show by Sophia Bruscato (2023).
Kirkland Lifestyle Magazine, Visual Impressions at Ryan James Fine Arts (2023).
Artrepreneur, Orange Book Vol. 2 (2023).
Art2Life Inspiration Story, Juliet Fiss: A New Formula for Creation (2021).
Art Collections
Rochester Institute of Technology Art Collection, Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Seattle University Art Collection, Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation
Private collections of individuals and businesses across the US
Open Source Projects
SignalShow educational signal processing visualization software, 2008
Professional Experience
Small Business Owner, Online Sales, Art Books and Art Supplies (2017-2025)
Editor and publisher, Circle Portraits by Laura Rafferty (2017)
Google, Webmaster Tools Team, Software Engineering Intern (2012)
Microsoft Research, Interactive Visual Media Group, Intern (2011)
Research Assistant, UW CSE (2010-2016)
Editor, Thinking about Equations by Matt Bernstein and William Friedman (2009)
Notetaker, RIT/National Technical Institute for the Deaf (2005-2009)
Research Assistant, RIT Munsell Color Science Laboratory (2009)
Software Developer, RIT Imaging Science (2007-2009)
Black River Systems Company, Systems Engineering Intern (2007)
Teaching Experience
Computer Programming and Art Week with Michael Cohen, Teacher (2012)
UW CSE Teaching Assistant: Art & Science of Digital Photography, Graphics Seminar,
Programming Languages (2009-2012)
RIT Imaging Science Teaching Assistant: Digital Image Processing I & II (2008-2009)
E-magination Computer Camps, Counselor and Curriculum Developer (2006)
Carleton College CS, Prefector, Data Structures (2005)
Volunteering
Gallery Volunteer, Kirkland Arts Center (2021-2022)
Technical Papers Reviewer, SIGGRAPH Conferences (2015)
Student Volunteer, CVPR, ICCP, 3DV Conferences (2011-2013)
President, Society of Imaging Science & Technology, RIT Student Chapter (2008-2009)
Awards and Fellowships
Visual Impressions 2023 Curator’s Award
NVIDIA Graduate Research Fellowship
John Wiley Jones Outstanding Student in Science (RIT)
RIT Davis Leadership Scholar
RIT Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar
National Merit Scholar