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

Selected Publications

• 
  FastMesh: Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via Component Decoupling
  Jeonghwan Kim, Yushi Lan, Armando Fortes, Yongwei Chen, Xingang Pan
  Preprint 2025
  [paper] [code]
• 
  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