The RIPS 2009 sponsors and projects were:
| Aerospace Corp | Developing and Comparing Lambert Solvers for Trajectory Design Studies and Space Mission Analyses |
| Arete | Ship Segmentation for Periscope Imagery |
| Center for Applied Molecular Medicine | Auto-calibration of MS Proteomic Data |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratories | Using Level Sets to Represent Invariant Manifolds to Design a Planet Finder Mission |
| Los Angeles Police Department | Algorithm Development for Criminal Geographic Profiling |
| Los Alamos National Lab | Characterizing locally disrupted synchronization in Langevin molecular dynamics |
| Pixar & Disney Animation Studios | Parameter Estimation for Constitutive Models of Deformable Objects |
| Placental Analytics, LLC. | Three Dimensional Surface Reconstruction and Measurement of Placentas |
| Symantec | Fast Text Detection for Image Spam |