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

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.

Seeking PhD internship opportunities for Summer/Fall 2026.

Education

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

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

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

  Lisbon, Portugal
  2018 - 2021

Selected Publications

• 
  BokehDepth: Enhancing Monocular Depth Estimation through Bokeh Generation
  Hangwei Zhang, Armando Teles Fortes, Tianyi Wei, Xingang Pan
  Preprint, Under Review.
  [paper]
• 
  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

• NTU SC4001 Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2026
• 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

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