Rocio Mercado

Assistant Professor at Data Science and AI
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Showing 19 publications

2026

Descriptor and graph-based molecular representations in prediction of copolymer properties using machine learning

Elaheh Kazemi-Khasragh, Rocio Mercado, Carlos Gonzalez et al
Computational Materials Science. Vol. 264
Journal article
2026

deCIFer: Crystal Structure Prediction from Powder Diffraction Data using Autoregressive Language Models

Frederik Lizak Johansen, Ulrik Friis-Jensen, Erik Bjørnager Dam et al
Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Vol. 2026-April
Journal article
2026

AI-Accelerated Design and Modeling of Organic Electrochemical Energy Materials: From Redox-Active Molecules to Polymer Electrolytes

Zhan Yun Zhang, Ioannis Savvas, Jichen Li et al
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. Vol. 311 (9)
Review article
2026

Retrosynformer: planning multi-step chemical synthesis routes via a decision transformer

Emma Granqvist, Rocio Mercado, Samuel Genheden
Digital Discovery. Vol. 5 (1), p. 348-362
Journal article
2026

Unlocking the Chemical Space for Rechargeable Batteries with a Generative Solvent Design System

Zhan-Yun Zhang, Rocio Mercado, Thanh Trung Le et al
ACS Nano. Vol. 20 (29), p. 20714-20729
Journal article
2026

PROTAC-Splitter: a machine learning framework for automated identification of PROTAC substructures

Stefano Ribes, Ranxuan Zhang, Télio Corentin Cropsal et al
Journal of Cheminformatics. Vol. 18 (1)
Journal article
2026

Computational Identification of Active Drug Metabolites for Human Protein Targets

Sofia Larsson, Rocio Mercado, Susanne Winiwarter et al
Molecular Pharmaceutics. Vol. 23 (7), p. 3816-3824
Journal article
2026

Do humans and large language models agree on the quality of synthesis plans?

Varvara Voinarovska, Rocio Mercado, Mikhail Kabeshov et al
DIGITAL DISCOVERY. Vol. In Press
Journal article
2025

Prediction of Permeability and Efflux Using Multitask Learning

Philip Ivers Ohlsson, Gian Marco Ghiandoni, Susanne Winiwarter et al
ACS Omega. Vol. 10 (45), p. 54148-54159
Journal article
2025

Predicting PROTAC-mediated ternary complexes with AlphaFold3 and Boltz-1

Nils Dunlop, Francisco Erazo, Farzaneh Jalalypour et al
Digital Discovery. Vol. 4
Journal article
2025

LAGOM: A transformer-based chemical language model for drug metabolite prediction

Sofia Larsson, Miranda Carlsson, Richard Beckmann et al
Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences. Vol. 8
Journal article
2024

Do Chemformers Dream of Organic Matter? Evaluating a Transformer Model for Multistep Retrosynthesis

Annie M. Westerlund, Siva Manohar Koki, Supriya Kancharla et al
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Vol. 64 (8), p. 3021-3033
Journal article
2024

Modeling PROTAC degradation activity with machine learning

Stefano Ribes, Eva Nittinger, Christian Tyrchan et al
Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences. Vol. 6
Journal article
2024

A comprehensive review of emerging approaches in machine learning for de novo PROTAC design

Yossra Gharbi, Rocio Mercado
Digital Discovery. Vol. 3 (11), p. 2158-2176
Review article
2023

Data Sharing in Chemistry: Lessons Learned and a Case for Mandating Structured Reaction Data

Rocio Mercado, Steven M. Kearnes, Connor W. Coley
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Vol. 63 (14), p. 4253-4265
Review article
2022

De Novo Drug Design Using Reinforcement Learning with Graph- Based Deep Generative Models

Sara Romeo Atance, Juan Viguera Diez, Ola Engkvist et al
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Vol. 62 (20), p. 4863-4872
Journal article
2022

Exploring Graph Traversal Algorithms in Graph-Based Molecular Generation

Rocio Mercado, Esben Jannik Bjerrum, Ola Engkvist
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Vol. 62 (9), p. 2093-2100
Journal article
2021

Graph networks for molecular design

Rocio Mercado, Tobias Rastemo, Edvard Lindelöf et al
Machine Learning: Science and Technology. Vol. 2 (2)
Journal article
2020

Practical notes on building molecular graph generative models

Rocio Mercado, Tobias Rastemo, Edvard Lindelof et al
Applied AI Letters. Vol. 1 (2)
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Showing 8 research projects

2026–2030

New Paradigms for Deep Generative Modeling of Polymers (POLYGEN)

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
European Research Council (ERC)

2026–2030

POLYGEN: New Paradigms for Deep Generative Modeling of Polymers.

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
European Commission (EC)

2025–2030

NEST project Solid Polymer ElectrolytE Discovery (SPEED)

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

2025–2030

Time-Resolved Imaging and Multi-Channel Evaluation of Cellular Dynamics (TIMED)

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
Ashkan Panahi Data Science and AI 3
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

2025–2026

Language models for accelerated materials design of multi-component oxides

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

2025–2029

New strategies for breaking intrinsic antibiotic resistance of mycobacteria

Michaela Wenzel Chemical Biology
Leo Andrekson Molecular Bioscience
Robin Rydbergh Molecular Bioscience
Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI 1
Swedish Research Council (VR)

2024–2027

Modeling cellular uptake via the IFITM pathway for data-driven drug design

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
Swedish Research Council (VR)

2024–2026

An integrated molecular dynamics and deep learning framework for multi-modal materials data

Rocio Mercado Data Science and AI
Merck
Intel Corporation

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