Armando Teles Fortes Ph.D. Student MMLab@NTU S-Lab for Advanced Intelligence Email: armandol001 [at] ntu.edu.sg [GitHub] [Google Scholar] [LinkedIn]

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student of MMLab@NTU in the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Xingang Pan. Before that, I received my M.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Jun Zhu, and my B.Sc. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico. I also spent some time as an intern at AWS, and at the SAILING Lab, CMU.

My research explores the foundations of generative intelligence and methods for controllable multimodal generation.

Seeking PhD internship opportunities for Summer/Fall 2026.

Education

• 
  Nanyang Technological University
  Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering
  Advisor: Prof. Xingang Pan
  

  Singapore
  2024 - Present
• 
  Tsinghua University
  M.Sc. Computer Science and Technology
  Advisor: Prof. Jun Zhu, Rank: 1/72
  

  Beijing, China
  2022 - 2024
• 
  Instituto Superior Técnico
  B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering
  Grade: A, Academic Excellence Award

  Lisbon, Portugal
  2018 - 2021

Selected Publications

• 
  Bokeh Diffusion: Defocus Blur Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
  Armando Fortes, Tianyi Wei, Shangchen Zhou, Xingang Pan
  SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
  [paper] [code] [dataset]

Honors & Awards

• 2024   NTU Research Scholarship Award (Ph.D.), Nanyang Technological University
• 2023   Winner of International Algorithm Case Competition (IACC), Pazhou Lab
• 2022   Chinese Government Scholarship (M.Sc.), Tsinghua University
• 2021   Academic Excellence Award, Instituto Superior Técnico
• 2020   Academic Merit Award, Instituto Superior Técnico

Teaching

• NTU SC1003 Introduction to Computational Thinking and Programming, Teaching Assistant, Fall, 2025
• NTU SC1007 Data Structures and Algorithms, Teaching Assistant, Spring, 2025