Research Collaboration Index · 2026
North America · Platinum standing
Strongest in Economics, Econometrics & Finance, at #43 in the world.
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Kotlikoff is a leading public finance economist whose generational accounting framework changed how governments measure fiscal sustainability. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, his work on inequality, Social Security and personal finance reaches policymakers and households alike through widely used planning tools.
Hyder became Dean of Boston University School of Public Health in 2025 after a quarter century improving health systems in low and middle income countries. He pioneered global road safety and injury prevention research across Africa, Asia and Latin America, advising WHO and national governments on saving lives.
Spiliopoulos directs Boston University's statistics programme and works at the interface of probability, stochastic processes and machine learning. His mean field analysis of deep neural networks gives rigorous mathematical foundations to modern AI training, with applications spanning financial risk, multiscale systems and reaction diffusion models in biology.
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