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.

Education

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

Selected PublicationsFull list on Google Scholar

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 dataset 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

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

Fall 2025

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
Spring 2025

NTU SC1007 Data Structures and Algorithms, Teaching Assistant

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer

2027

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
2026

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2026

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
2026

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)