Report summary

University of California, San Diego Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 109-PI network with 186 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (37% of slots across 72 PIs; 72 labels), Electrical and Electronic Engineering as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 44 PIs; 44 labels), and Photonic and Optical Devices as the leading topic (4% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 26 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Zhaowei Liu (68.2 weighted works; Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications). The strongest pairings are Yeshaiahu Fainman and Felipe Vallini (48 shared works, weight 26.9). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 98.4, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, led by Zhaowei Liu, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Boubacar Kanté; group 2 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 42.6, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, led by Gabriel M. Rebeiz, Patrick P. Mercier, Drew A. Hall.