Student-Faculty Programs Office
Summer 2025 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 
Chopper Separation Mechanism Support    Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering Christopher Lefler (JPL)  03-Mar-25
Determining the Composition of Ice Grains Sourced from the Enceladus Plume    Planetary Science, Physics Bryana Henderson (JPL)  28-Feb-25
Simulating the TIR Radiance Spectra of Volcanic SO2 Plumes    Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Vincent Realmuto (JPL)  21-Feb-25
Ariel / Case data product quality automated supervision    Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Gael Roudier (JPL)  18-Feb-25
DSN Receiver Modeling and Simulation in Simulink and Matlab Program    Electrical and Computer Eng, Applied and Computational Mathematics Michael Cheng (JPL)  13-Feb-25
Spacecraft Microbial Cleanliness and Risk Assessment using Bioinformatics Tools    Biology, Computer science, microbiology Moogega Cooper (JPL)  13-Feb-25
Advanced On Board Processor Hardware Emulator for Veritas    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Jeng Lee (JPL)  06-Feb-25
Multivariable Optimization of Landing Site Selection, Number of Safe Landing Sites, and Rover Drive Time    Aerospace Engineering, Optimization Eugene Bonfiglio (JPL)  06-Feb-25
Psyche Guidance, Navigation & Control: Flight Performance Analysis and Stability Margin Verification    Guidance, Navigation and Control, Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Frederick Serricchio (JPL)  06-Feb-25
Hazard Divert Size Sensitivity to Rocky Surfaces for the Sample Return Lander EDL Systems Team    Aerospace Engineering, Statistics Eugene Bonfiglio (JPL)  06-Feb-25
Commercial Electronics Reliability     Electrical Engineering, physics Jean Yang-Scharlotta (JPL)  04-Feb-25
Modeling and Simulation of Planetary Space Platforms    Computer Science, Computer Engineering Vivian Steyert (JPL)  04-Feb-25
Modeling and Simulation of Planetary Space Platforms     Computer Science, Computer Engineering Tristan Hasseler (JPL)  04-Feb-25
Classification of Exoplanets     Computer Science, Computer Science or Physics Jonathan Jiang (JPL)  28-Jan-25
Developing a Machine Learning Framework for Estimating CO₂ and Methane Emissions Using NASA Satellite Observations    Computer Science, Earth Sciences Sudhanshu Pandey (JPL)  14-Jan-25
Developing a Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Jacobians in Atmospheric Flux Inversions    Mathematics, Geophysics Sudhanshu Pandey (JPL)  14-Jan-25
MISR Plume Height Project 2025    Earth Science, Atmospheric Physics Marcin Witek (JPL)  14-Jan-25
Signals of Opportunity Software Defined Radio (SDR) based Development for UAV    Electrical Engineering, Earth Science Rashmi Shah (JPL)  13-Jan-25
Aerie and Endurance    Computer Engineering, Spacecraft Systems Juan Delfa (JPL)  07-Jan-25
Earth Data Visualization Generation Using UMM-Vis    Computer Science, Earth Science Z Xing (JPL)  07-Jan-25
Psyche Guidance, Navigation & Control: Flight Performance Analysis and Stability Margin Verification    Guidance, Navigation and Control, Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Alex Manka (JPL)  06-Dec-24
Joint Inversion of Magnetic and Gravity Data for Icy World Oceans Enabled by Laboratory Measurements and Interior Models    Planetary Science, Open source coding Steven Vance (JPL)  04-Dec-24
Water Abundance in Photon-Dominated Regions    Astronomy/Astrophysics Dariusz Lis (JPL)  04-Dec-24
Anomaly detection and algorithm development for Deep Space Network data    Data Science, Applied Math, Computer Science, Physics, Astronomy Lisa Locke (JPL)  07-Nov-24


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