Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for University of California, San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a 51-PI network with 27 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (32% of slots across 33 PIs; 33 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (8% of slots across 11 PIs; 11 labels), and High-pressure geophysics and materials as the leading topic (3% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Padmini Rangamani (23 weighted works; Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions); Miroslav Krstić (22.6 weighted works; Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations, Advanced Control Systems Optimization). The clearest collaboration lines are Padmini Rangamani and Christopher T. Lee (14 shared works, weight 7.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 10.3, around Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, led by Shengqiang Cai, James Friend, Renkun Chen; group 2 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 8.8, around Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, led by Sutanu Sarkar, Michael T. Tolley, Antonio L. Sánchez.