Report summary

Boston University Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 51-PI network with 63 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Engineering as the leading field (39% of slots across 37 PIs; 37 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), and Advanced Materials and Mechanics as the leading topic (3% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Keith A. Brown (38.5 weighted works; Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques). The most visible ties are Xin Zhang and Stephan W. Anderson (32 shared works, weight 17.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 36.5, around Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, led by Xin Zhang, Jillian L. Goldfarb, Emily Ryan; group 2 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 34.1, around Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, led by Keith A. Brown, Christos G. Cassandras, Sean B. Andersson.