Vittorio Candiello

Computational Scientist

Journey

BSc Aerospace Engineering

September 2020 – September 2023

Università di Padova · 110/110 cum laude · GPA 28.9/30

MSc Mathematical Engineering

September 2023 – March 2026

Politecnico di Milano · 110/110 cum laude · GPA 29.6/30

R&D Internship

February 2025 – August 2025

ABB Research Center, Baden, Switzerland · Numerical simulation of circuit breakers

Master's Thesis

September 2025 – March 2026

ETH Zurich, Soft Robotics Lab, Switzerland · Design optimization for soft robots

R&D Internship

March 2026 – Present

Dassault Systèmes, Stuttgart, Germany · ML-driven boundary conditions for LBM fluid simulation

Master's Thesis — ETH Zurich, Soft Robotics Lab, Switzerland

A Unified Low-Dimensional Design Embedding for Joint Optimization of Shape, Material, and Actuation in Soft Robots

Submitted to IROS (under review)

Read on arXiv
Overview of the unified design embedding for soft robot optimization
Optimization pipeline

Optimization pipeline

Decoding pipeline

Decoding pipeline

Swimmer Optimization

Joint vs sequential optimization

Loss plot: swimmer co-optimization vs sequential

Basis functions vs neural field

Loss plot: swimmer basis functions vs neural field

Jumper-Flipper Optimization

Joint vs sequential optimization

Loss plot: jumper co-optimization vs sequential

Basis functions vs per-voxel

Loss plot: jumper basis functions vs per-voxel

R&D Internship — Dassault Systèmes, Stuttgart, Germany

Time Domain Impedance BC for Lattice Boltzmann Solver

Internship at Dassault Systèmes: implementing a machine learning model for time-domain impedance boundary conditions (TDIBC) for acoustic liners within a lattice Boltzmann simulation framework, with applications in jet engines.

The public repository linked below is a minimal single-file C solver with no dependencies, built as an initial test. It implements a D2Q9 LBM with reflective solid wall boundary conditions and outputs compatible with ParaView.

View on GitHub

The video below shows a 2D LBM simulation with TDIBC for an acoustic liner, unlike the public repository, which uses purely reflective walls.

Acoustic wave simulation (Blender render, full solver with acoustic liner BCs)

R&D Internship — ABB Research Center, Baden, Switzerland

Circuit Breaker Simulation

Simulation tools for circuit breaker design, involving coupled electromagnetics, radiation transport, and fluid dynamics.

Contributed to a radiation transport model and reviewed the electromagnetic solver code.

Circuit breaker transient simulation Temperature [K] 20,000 300

Circuit breaker transient simulation