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

Biography

I am a first-year 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 at Amazon Web Services, and at the SAILING Lab, Carnegie Mellon University.

My research interests lie within the expansive fields of machine learning and deep learning, currently focusing on deep generative models and their rich applications for controllable multimodal generation.

Selected Publications

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

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