William D. Oliver is the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds the positions of Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering, Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Principal Investigator in the Engineering Quantum Systems Group at MIT, and Laboratory Fellow Emeritus at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Oliver joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 2003 with the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group, becoming Laboratory Fellow from 2017 to 2023, and joined the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics in 2006. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Japanese from the University of Rochester in 1995, S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1997, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics from Stanford University in 2003.

In Physics, Oliver's research areas include Condensed Matter Experiment and Quantum Information Science. His work spans the materials growth, fabrication and 3D integration, design, control, and measurement of superconducting qubits and their use in small-scale quantum processors. He develops cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor and single-flux quantum digital logic. Key publications include "Waveguide quantum electrodynamics with giant superconducting artificial atoms" (Nature, 2020), "Impact of ionizing radiation on superconducting qubit coherence" (Nature, 2020), and "Coherent control of a hybrid superconducting circuit made with graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures" (Nature Nanotechnology, 2019). Oliver is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2023), American Physical Society (2016, for pioneering contributions to the physics and engineering of robust superconducting quantum systems and high-performance cryogenic control electronics), and IEEE (2025). He received the Thornton Family Faculty Research and Innovation Fellowship (2021) and serves on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, US Committee for Superconducting Electronics, and IEEE Applied Superconductivity Conference Board.

Professional Email: william.oliver@mit.edu