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 
Exoplanetary Biosignatures    Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Planetary Science Pin Chen (JPL)  27-Feb-26
Hardware-in-the-loop Deep Space Network Autonomy Sandbox    Information Systems/Technology, Data Science Ryan Mackey (JPL)  25-Feb-26
Voronoi-Based Spatial Weighting for Robust Geocenter Motion Estimation from JTRF    Geophysics, Space Geodesy, Aerospace Engineering Claudio Abbondanza (JPL)  24-Feb-26
Discovering rare galaxies in survey imagery with self-supervised anomaly detection    Astronomy, Data Science Eric Huff (JPL)  24-Feb-26
Generative Models for Precision Simulation of Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Imaging    Astronomy, Computer Science Eric Huff (JPL)  24-Feb-26
Project Title: AI for Sentinel-6 Instrument Health Monitoring    Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Umaa Rebbapragada (JPL)  23-Feb-26
OUSW Evaluation of SEE in Space Computing Hardware    Computer Science, Physics/Applied Physics Steven Guertin (JPL)  19-Feb-26
OUSW Support of Radiation Effects Test Development    Electrical Engineering, Physics/Applied Physics Gregory Allen (JPL)  19-Feb-26
Modeling how dark matter structure forms under gravity to test dark energy    Astronomy/Astrophysics Dida Markovic (JPL)  13-Feb-26
Skyfall Mars Helicopter Aerial Validation Test Team    Aerospace Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems Laura Jones-Wilson (JPL)  28-Jan-26
Deep Learning for Operational Greenhouse Gas Plume Monitoring with the EMIT Imaging Spectrometer    Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Imaging Spectroscopy Jake Lee (JPL)  23-Jan-26
Federated Autonomous MEasurement    Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Search, Embedded systems Steve Chien (JPL)  23-Jan-26


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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