Before joining Northwestern, Oliver spent one year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University, under the supervision of Professor Shree K. Nayar. His research interests lie at the intersection of optics, computer vision, and computer graphics. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, where his research focused on the design and analysis of computational imaging systems. He earned his M.S. from the MIT Media Lab, where his research focused on holography and computational displays. Oliver was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Best Paper Award at ICCP 2010, and his research was featured in the March 2011 issue of Scientific American Magazine. Oliver has authored ten patents on various topics in computational imaging and displays.