Report summary

For University of Southern California Department of Electrical Engineering in 2015-2017, the graph shows 32 visible PIs and 11 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (31% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), Electrical and Electronic Engineering as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), and Academic Writing and Publishing as the leading topic (2% of slots across 2 PIs; 2 labels). That looks relatively sparse, so claims about department-wide cohesion should be made carefully. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Alan E. Willner (62.4 weighted works; Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies). The clearest collaboration lines are Viktor K. Prasanna and Marc Frîncu (8 shared works, weight 4.4). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 5 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 6.9, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, led by Stephen B. Cronin, Chongwu Zhou, Michelle L. Povinelli.