Armando Teles Fortes

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate of MMLab@NTU in the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Xingang Pan. Before that, I obtained 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 generative intelligence and controllable multimodal generation.

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

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

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

2018 - 2021
Lisbon, Portugal

ThinkDrag: Semantic Drag-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning
Armando Fortes, Tianyi Wei, Chindanai Trakantannarong, Shangchen Zhou, Xingang Pan
Preprint 2026
[paper soon] [code soon]
Boosting Monocular Metric Depth Estimation via Bokeh Rendering
Hangwei Zhang, Armando Fortes, Tianyi Wei, Xingang Pan
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
[paper] [code]
FastMesh: Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via Component Decoupling
Jeonghwan Kim, Yushi Lan, Armando Fortes, Yongwei Chen, Xingang Pan
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2026
[paper] [code]
Bokeh Diffusion: Defocus Blur Control in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Armando Fortes, Tianyi Wei, Shangchen Zhou, Xingang Pan
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
[paper] [code] [dataset]

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

NTU CE6190 Special Topic - Recent Advances in Visual Understanding and Generation, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2025
NTU SC1003 Introduction to Computational Thinking and Programming, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2025
NTU SC1007 Data Structures and Algorithms, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2025

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