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Wei-Min Dai

- Verified email at ust.hk - Cited by 7489

Wei Dai

- Verified email at imperial.ac.uk - Cited by 5393

Wei Dai

- Verified email at cs.cmu.edu - Cited by 4835

Subspace pursuit for compressive sensing signal reconstruction

W Dai, O Milenkovic - IEEE transactions on Information Theory, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new method for reconstruction of sparse signals with and without noisy
perturbations, termed the subspace pursuit algorithm. The algorithm has two important …

CT imaging and differential diagnosis of COVID-19

W Dai, H Zhang, J Yu, H Xu, H Chen… - Canadian …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the beginning of 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout
China. This study explains the findings from lung computed tomography images of some …

Chemistry and biology of taxol

KC Nicolaou, WM Dai, RK Guy - … Chemie International Edition …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
One can view plants as a reference library of compounds waiting to be searched by a
chemist who is looking for a particular property. Taxol, a complex polyoxygenated diterpene …

Ferroptosis as a target for protection against cardiomyopathy

…, H Wang, D Han, E Xie, X Yang, J Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. A key pathogenic factor in the
development of lethal heart failure is loss of terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes. However, …

Petuum: A new platform for distributed machine learning on big data

EP Xing, Q Ho, W Dai, JK Kim, J Wei, S Lee… - Proceedings of the 21th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
How can one build a distributed framework that allows efficient deployment of a wide spectrum
of modern advanced machine learning (ML) programs for industrial-scale problems using …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption behavior of organic pollutants on microplastics

L Fu, J Li, G Wang, Y Luan, W Dai - Ecotoxicology and Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are emerging pollutants that act as a carrier of toxic pollutants, release
toxic substances, and aggregate in biota. The adsorption behavior of MPs has recently …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamental aspects of solid dispersion technology for poorly soluble drugs

Y Huang, WG Dai - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2014 - Elsevier
The solid dispersion has become an established solubilization technology for poorly water
soluble drugs. Since a solid dispersion is basically a drug–polymer two-component system, …

Roles of nanoparticles in oil lubrication

W Dai, B Kheireddin, H Gao, H Liang - Tribology international, 2016 - Elsevier
This review focused on the effects of nanoparticles on tribological performance in oil lubrication.
Specifically, chemical, physical, and morphological parameters of nanoparticles were …

Poseidon: An efficient communication architecture for distributed deep learning on {GPU} clusters

…, S Xu, W Dai, Q Ho, X Liang, Z Hu, J Wei… - 2017 USENIX Annual …, 2017 - usenix.org
Deep learning models can take weeks to train on a single GPU-equipped machine,
necessitating scaling out DL training to a GPU-cluster. However, current distributed DL …

[HTML][HTML] Active site residues of cyclophilin A are crucial for its signaling activity via CD147

V Yurchenko, G Zybarth, M O'Connor, WW Dai… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Cyclophilin A (CyPA), a ubiquitously distributed intracellular protein, is a peptidylprolylcis-trans-isomerase
and the major target of the potent immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A. …