Report summary

The 2020-2026 picture for University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering is a 11-PI network with 5 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Social Sciences as the leading field (67% of slots across 2 PIs; 2 labels), Building and Construction as the leading subfield (25% of slots across 1 PIs; 1 labels), and Child Development and Digital Technology as the leading topic (17% of slots across 1 PIs; 1 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Lei Zhu (8.2 weighted works; Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques, Urban Transport and Accessibility). The clearest collaboration lines are Lei Zhu and Yuqiu Yuan (2 shared works, weight 1.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 3 PIs, 2 internal connections, weight 2.1, around Building and Construction, Transportation, Urban Studies, led by Lei Zhu, Yuqiu Yuan, Yu Yuan; group 2 with 3 PIs, 2 internal connections, weight 2, around Education, led by Yesim Sireli, Anmol Sarao, Omar Rahman.