Below are Announcements of Opportunity posted by Caltech faculty and JPL technical staff for
all programs administered by the Student-Faculty Programs office. This list also appears on
SFP's main website, while AO lists on the SURF, Amgen Scholars, NASA Space Grant, and NASA USRP
sites show just AOs applicable to their respective programs.
Project Title
Disciplines
Mentor
Posted
Computer vision for environmental science of rivers
Computer Science, Mechanical Engineeering, Environmental Science
Michael Lamb
07-Jan-26
Hunting for the most extreme nuclear transients
Astrophysics, Data Science
Matthew Graham
06-Jan-26
Finding Massive Black Hole Binaries in Preparation for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detections
Astrophysics, Astronomy, Computer Science
David Cook
05-Jan-26
Preparing for Fast Radio Burst Observations with the DSA-2000
Astrophysics, Astronomy, Computer Science
Vikram Ravi
15-Dec-25
High Energy Astrophysics projects
Astrophysics, Astronomy
Fiona Harrison
05-Dec-25
Calcium isotopes in urine as a tracer of bone health
Geochemistry
Francois Tissot
04-Dec-25
Sonic-Speed, Light-Speed, and Quantum Imaging/Physics
Physics, Electrical Engineering
Lihong Wang
01-Dec-25
Biophysics-informed foundational models of brain circuits
Computation and Neural Systems, Bioengineering
Costas Anastassiou
21-Nov-25
Biophysics-informed ML & NeuroAI
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Computation and Neural Systems
Costas Anastassiou
20-Nov-25
Growing brain cells on a computer: multimodal data-driven cellular model optimization and validation using gradient-based methods
Multidisciplinary, Computation and Mathematical Sciences
Costas Anastassiou
20-Nov-25