Student-Faculty Programs Office
Summer 2026 Announcements of Opportunity

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 
Projects in planetary and stellar astronomy    Astronomy, Astrophysics Yinuo Han  23-Jan-26
An Operational Metrics Dashboard for the Keck Observatory Archive.    Astronomy, Computer Science Bruce Bertiman  23-Jan-26
Study of the factors influencing autoignition in fuels in the ASTM-E659 apparatus.    Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautics Joseph Shepherd  22-Jan-26
Experimental work in Hypersonics     Aeronautics, Mechanical Engineering Joseph Shepherd  20-Jan-26
Quasar or Starburst? The Shimmering Facets of Galaxies    Astrophysics, Astronomy George Helou  20-Jan-26
NEO Surveyor Mission Support     Astronomy, Computer Science; Planetary Science Joseph Masiero  08-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


Problems with or questions about submitting an AO?  Call Student-Faculty Programs of the Student-Faculty Programs Office at (626) 395-2885.
 
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