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Wei-Min Dai

- Verified email at ust.hk - Cited by 7487

Wei Dai

- Verified email at imperial.ac.uk - Cited by 5386

Wei Dai

- Verified email at cs.cmu.edu - Cited by 4822

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 …

[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, …

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 …

Ferroptosis as a target for protection against cardiomyopathy

…, X Yin, Q Cheng, P Zhang, W Dai… - 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 …

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 …

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

B Dai, J Wang, Z Xiong, X Zhan, W Dai, CC Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Phototaxis is commonly observed in motile photosynthetic microorganisms. For example,
green algae are capable of swimming towards a light source (positive phototaxis) to receive …

Very deep convolutional neural networks for raw waveforms

W Dai, C Dai, S Qu, J Li, S Das - 2017 IEEE international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning acoustic models directly from the raw waveform data with minimal processing is
challenging. Current waveform-based models have generally used very few (~2) convolutional …

Mechanism of activation of protein kinase JAK2 by the growth hormone receptor

AJ Brooks, W Dai, ML O'Mara, D Abankwa, Y Chhabra… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction Class I cytokines regulate key processes such as growth, lactation, hematopoiesis,
and immune function and contribute to oncogenesis. Although the extracellular domain …