Armando Fortes
PHD Candidate
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolArmando Fortes is a PhD candidate and researcher specializing in controllable visual synthesis and diffusion models, currently at MMLab, Nanyang Technological University, with prior research stints at Tsinghua's TSAIL and a reinforcement-learning internship at Carnegie Mellon. He combines five years of industry and research experience—from an SDE role at AWS to hands-on work on controllable diffusion and LLM-RL projects—bridging production engineering and cutting-edge generative AI. As a teaching assistant he also translates complex visual understanding and programming topics for students, reflecting strong communication alongside technical depth. Based in Portugal with academic roots at Técnico Lisboa and Tsinghua, he brings a cross-cultural, systems-and-research mindset to problems in visual generation that emphasizes controllability and real-world applicability.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior TécnicoMaster of Science Computer Science and Technology, Master of Science Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (39)
text-to-image10
chatgpt10
image-synthesis10
diffusion-models10
multimodal10
midjourney10
prompt10
style-transfer10
prompt-engineering10
openai10
personalization10
dreambooth10
generative-art10
dall-e10
gpt10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
atfortes/Awesome-Controllable-Diffusion
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Papers and resources on Controllable Generation using Diffusion Models, including ControlNet, DreamBooth, IP-Adapter.
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
diffusion-modelsdreamboothcontrolnetcustomizationdall-e
atfortes/Awesome-LLM-Reasoning
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
From Chain-of-Thought prompting to OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 🍓
Contributions:78 commits, 35 PRs, 175 pushes in 4 months
openailanguage-modelspromptin-context-learningchatgpt
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