Research Collaboration Mapping Assistant

The Research Collaboration Mapping Assistant supports provosts, deans, and research-development officers who need to see the hidden connective tissue of a campus's research talent. It stitches together faculty profiles, publications, and grant histories into clear expertise clusters, then proposes interdisciplinary pairings with a rationale and confidence level for each, helping institutions respond faster to funding calls and seed new centers.

• Clusters faculty into expertise groups based on shared topics, methods, and datasets
• Proposes cross-college partnership matches with an explicit rationale for why each pairing works
• Assigns confidence levels to distinguish evidence-based matches from speculative ones
• Uses internet search and code interpretation to enrich and cluster publication or co-authorship data
• Flags expertise gaps where the institution lacks capacity for a given initiative