Oliver received his PhD in computer science in 2010 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since then, he has worked in a number of research positions at HP Labs, Industrial Light and Magic, the Max Planck Institut-Informatik, as well as a stint of six years at Disney Research in Zurich. During this time, his work has been included in a number of patents, and even in the production process of several mainstream movies. His research broadly spans the areas of image and video processing and computer vision.
Please find more information at his personal webpage.