Leandro A. Bugnon
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I work at the intersection of machine learning and bioinformatics, with a focus on learning representations of biological sequences, RNA structure prediction, and conditional generative models.
I am an Assistant Researcher at sinc(i)/UNL – CONICET, and an Adjunct Professor at the National University of the Litoral and Austral University. I also collaborate with The Cell Company on applied bioinformatics projects.
News
| Jun 25, 2025 | 📑 New paper! Can ML read emotions from physiology? In a big team competition, models beat random baselines but struggled with generalizability, revealing both the power and pitfalls of applying ML to affective science. Read here. |
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| Apr 10, 2025 | 📑 New paper! Can RNA structure prediction benefit from large language models? Our study benchmarks 6 state-of-the-art RNA-LLMs across diverse datasets to find out: a short thread. |
| Apr 01, 2025 | 🧑🔬 PhD fellows joining the lab! Bruno Breggia will be working on improving representation learning for biological sequences, and Guillermo Kulemayer on joint generative models of sequence and structure |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Automation and Robotics has its first graduate! UNL News (spanish). |
| May 24, 2024 | 📑 New paper! We propose a new architecture for RNA secondary structure prediction: a short thread. |