Report summary

For University of Southern California Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2018-2020, the graph shows 40 visible PIs and 19 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (26% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (15% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering as the leading topic (7% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That looks relatively sparse, so claims about department-wide cohesion should be made carefully. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Andrea M. Armani (24.2 weighted works; Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies). The clearest collaboration lines are Mark S. Humayun and Qifa Zhou (18 shared works, weight 8.1). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 10.7, around Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Oncology, led by Stacey D. Finley, Eun Ji Chung, K. Robert Shen.