Luc Blassel

I am a bioinformatics researcher interested in machine learning applied to biology. Most recently I have been working on Deep learning methods for phylogenetic inference. Read more about me.

Featured Publications

• Garot Vincent, Blassel Luc, Nesterenko Luca, Zhukova Anna, Alizon Samuel, Jacob Laurent, Teddy: Neural Inference of Epidemiological Parameters from Viral Sequences. bioRxiv (2026)
• Nesterenko Luca*, Blassel Luc*, Veber Philippe, Boussau Bastien, Jacob Laurent. Phyloformer: Fast, Accurate, and Versatile Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Deep Neural Networks. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42,msaf051 (2025).
• Blassel Luc, Boussau Bastien, Lartillot Nicolas, Jacob Laurent, Likelihood-Free Inference of Phylogenetic Tree Posterior Distributions. arXiv (2025)