The RIPS 2008 sponsors and projects were:
| Aerospace Corporation | Optimizing Network Topologies |
| Amgen | Modelling and Measuring Unstable Behavior in Hematopoiesis |
| Arete | Automatic Target Recognition |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Using Level Sets to Represent Invariant Manifolds for Trajectory Design |
| Microsoft Research Asia | Study on network formation games |
| Pixar Animation Studio | Detail Preservation for Simulated Characters |
| Spielberg Center for Applied Proteomics | Development of a probabilistic framework for estimating protein quantities in LCMS Experiments |
| Symantec | Indexing techniques for databases of graphs |