| Shih, Hsin-Yi | Radio jet driven outflows: an investigation of extended emission line regions around radio loud AGNs | 2014 | University of Hawaii | GMOS-N | USA |
| Bailey, Vanessa Perry | Adaptive optics for directly imaging planetary systems | 2015 | The University of Arizona | NICI | USA |
| Barber, Sara D. | Planetary remnants around white dwarf stars | 2015 | University of Oklahoma | NIRI | USA |
| Diamond, Tiara R. | Imprints of explosion conditions on late-time spectra of type Ia supernovae | 2015 | Florida State University | GNIRS | USA |
| Esposito, Thomas Matthew | Exploring planetary system evolution through high-contrast imaging | 2015 | University of California Los Angeles | GPI | USA |
| Lena, Davide | Aspects of supermassive black hole growth in nearby active galactic nuclei | 2015 | Rochester Institute of Technology | GMOS-S | USA |
| Mooley, Kunal P. | Exploring the dynamic radio sky: the search for slow transients with the VLA | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Patel, Brandon | Type Ia supernovae: their progenitors and use as cosmological probes | 2015 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | GMOS-N | USA |
| Rapson, Valerie Ann | Infrared investigations of the composition and structure of nearby protoplanetary disks | 2015 | Rochester Institute of Technology | GPI | USA |
| Reiter, Megan Ruth | Measuring the Physical Properties of Protostellar Outflows from Intermediate-Mass Stars in Feedback-Dominated Regions | 2015 | The University of Arizona | GeMS+GSAOI | USA |
| Simanton, Lesley Ann | Star Cluster Populations in the Spiral Galaxy M101 | 2015 | University of Toledo | GMOS-N | USA |
| Singer, Leo P. | The needle in the hundred square haystack: the hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Andrews, Jeffrey John | Double white dwarfs as probes of single and binary star evolution | 2016 | Columbia University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Ballering, Nicholas | Measuring the Structure and Composition of Circumstellar Debris Disks | 2016 | The University of Arizona | TRECS | USA |
| Cao, Yi | Cosmic explosions: observations of infant hydrogen-free supernovae towards an understanding of their parent systems | 2016 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Hung, Li-Wei | Characterizing debris disks with multi-wavelength high-contrast imaging | 2016 | University of California Los Angeles | TRECS/GPI | USA |
| Morley, Caroline V. | Clouds and hazes in exoplanets and brown dwarfs | 2016 | University of California Santa Cruz | NIRI | USA |
| de Kleer, Katherine Rebecca | Extreme Worlds of the Outer Solar System: Dynamic Processes on Uranus & Io | 2017 | University of California, Berkeley | NIRI+ALTAIR | USA |
| Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie | A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration | 2017 | California Institute of Technology | GPI | USA |
| Yan, Ting | A search for redshifted absorption lines at radio frenquencies | 2013 | University of Colorado at Boulder | GMOS-N | USA |
