Armando Teles FortesPh.D. Candidate
MMLab@NTU |
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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 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.
Education
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2024 - Present
Singapore -
2022 - 2024
Beijing, China -
Instituto Superior Técnico
B.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering
Grade: A, Academic Excellence Award
2018 - 2021
Lisbon, Portugal
Selected Publications
[Full List on Google Scholar]-
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 soon] -
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]
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 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
Academic Service
Conference Reviewer:- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026