Publications
Peer-reviewed papers and preprints. Every entry links to the paper, the code and — where they exist — the dataset and an interactive demo, so the results can be reproduced or reused without emailing me first. A full list is also on Google Scholar, and my ORCID record is here.
2026
Stefano Ribes, Nils Dunlop, RocÃo Mercado 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), AI for Science Track, 2026
TACK aggregates 3,514 PROTACs and 6,561 degradation endpoints into the largest public PROTAC activity dataset, and uses it to run a rigorous statistical comparison of degradation-activity models.
Stefano Ribes, Ranxuan Zhang, Télio Cropsal, Anders Källberg, Christian Tyrchan, Eva Nittinger, RocÃo Mercado Journal of Cheminformatics, 2026
An open-source machine learning framework that automatically decomposes a PROTAC into its three functional parts — E3 ligand, linker and POI warhead — together with a synthetic dataset of ~1.3M annotated PROTAC structures.
2024
Stefano Ribes, Eva Nittinger, Christian Tyrchan, RocÃo Mercado Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences, 2024
An open-source, reproducible deep learning model for predicting PROTAC-induced degradation activity, together with a curated dataset built from PROTAC-DB and PROTAC-Pedia.
2020
Stefano Ribes, Pedro Trancoso, Ioannis Sourdis, Christos-Savvas Bouganis International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT), 2020
A framework that co-optimises multiple LSTM models for FPGA deployment via SVD-based approximation and structured pruning, reaching 3× to 5× speedups at equal accuracy loss.