Funding Opportunities

As a hub for the intersection of Physics and AI in the Boston area and beyond, we are happy to share funding opportunities at this intersection as we become aware of them.

Note: These are opportunities external to IAIFI. For IAIFI-related job opportunities, see our IAIFI Jobs page.

2027 Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship
Jane Street
Deadline: 2026-11-13 | Learn more

Details The Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) supports exceptional doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics. At Jane Street, we take a rigorous, quantitative approach to trading on global markets, combining techniques from machine learning, distributed systems, programmable hardware, statistics, and applied mathematics. Our culture is steeped in games, puzzles, and challenging problems. With the Graduate Research Fellowship, we’re excited to support PhD students who share our values: technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, and humility.

$20k Prize Pool - Real-World Forecasting & Operational ML Challenge
The Frontier Development Lab (FDL)
Deadline: 2026-11-01 | Learn more

Details A benchlab.live competition to forecast solar wind speed upstream of Earth 3 days ahead, evaluated on live real world data from the ACE satellite in an operational context. Help protect our critical modern infrastructure and astronauts in the face of space weather!

This project is supported by National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreements PHY-2019786 and PHY-2525568. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.