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The 2018-2020 picture for University of Southern California Department of Electrical Engineering is a 30-PI network with 13 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (27% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), Electrical and Electronic Engineering as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels), and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing as the leading topic (4% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 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 Alan E. Willner (52.4 weighted works; Optical Network Technologies, Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics). The clearest collaboration lines are Anand A. Joshi and Richard M. Leahy (16 shared works, weight 9.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 5 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 8.9, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, led by Stephen B. Cronin, Chongwu Zhou, Rehan Kapadia.