Dr. Ulf D. Schiller
(he/him)
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Center for Research in Soft Matter & Polymers (CRiSP)
Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AICoE)
Data Science Institute (DSI)
M.S. in Data Science
Email: uschill[at]udel.edu
Ulf holds M.S. degrees in Computer Science (2003) and Physics (2005) from the University of Bielefeld and received his Ph.D. (2005) in Physics from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He conducted his dissertation research at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Florida, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and University College London. Ulf joined the University of Delaware in 2023 as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Computer and Information Sciences and Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to joining UD, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University, where he helped establish computational materials science as a new focus area. Ulf has broad expertise in developing multiscale simulation techniques and data-driven approaches that enable scientific discovery in materials science, soft matter physics, and computational biomedicine. He developed the fluctuating lattice Boltzmann algorithm and contributed implementations to several open-source packages including ESPResSo, LB3D, and HemeLB. His current research focuses on high-performance computing and machine learning for interfacial phenomena in complex fluid mixtures, multiphase transport in porous materials, and biomedical fluid dynamics in patient-specific geometries. His research group collaborates with experimental research groups and clinicians to develop integrated computational and data-driven approaches that support discovery and design of new materials with enhanced performance for energy, environmental, and health applications. Ulf is also an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Research in Soft Matter & Polymers, the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, and the Data Science Institute.
Xiaohui Deng (he/him)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Gokul Raman Arumugam Kumar (he/him)
PhD Student
Gokul started working with the Schiller Research Group as a research intern during summer 2021. He received his B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Gandhinaghar, India, and joined the University of Delaware in 2023, where he completed his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in August 2025. Gokul's research concerns phase separation in ternary fluids under non-equilibrium conditions. He leverages a ternary lattice Boltzmann implementation in LAMMPS to conduct computer simulations of flowing multicomponent mixtures.
Nikhil Dhanankam (he/him)
PhD Student
Nikhil Dhanankam received his BTech from Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology India in Computer Science and Engineering and joined the University of Delaware in 2023. He entered the PhD program in Computer and Information Sciences in spring 2024. In his graduate research, Nikhil investigates machine learning and generative adversarial networks with applications in additive manufacturing of ceramic materials.
Tamem Salah (he/him)
PhD Student
Tamem Salah joined the Schiller Research Group in Spring 2023. His graduate research concerns modeling and simulation of ternary fluid mixtures with applications to emulsion templating of microstructured materials.
James Dracup (he/him)
PhD Student (joining Fall 2025)
Giorgio Tatarelli (he/him)
PhD Student (joining Fall 2025)
Alexander B. Lee (he/him)
Undergraduate Researcher
Derek Sweet (he/him)
Undergraduate Researcher
Isaac Weber (he/him)
Undergraduate Researcher
Rasib Zaman (he/him)
Undergraduate Researcher