NSF Presidential Young Investigator awards
Hassan Aref --ESM, Presidential Young Investigator, 1985 (received while elsewhere)
Khai D. T. Ngo --ECE, Presidential Young Investigator, 1989 (received while elsewhere; joined ECE in 2006)
Yilu Liu --ECE, Presidential Young Investigator, 1992
Ted Rappaport (no longer at VT) --ECE, Presidential Young Investigator, 1993

NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow awards
Yilu Liu --ECE, Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1994
Frank Chen --ISE, Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1996 (received while elsewhere)
Marc Edwards --CEE, Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1996 (received while elsewhere)

NSF PECASE awards
Sanjay Raman --ECE, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2000
Michael Garvin --CEE, PECASE, 2004 (received while elsewhere)
Sandeep Shukla --ECE, PECASE, 2004
Harry Dankowicz (no longer at VT) --ESM, PECASE 2004
Tom Martin --ECE, PECASE, 2006

NSF Young Investigator Awards (changed to CAREER in 1994)
Panos Diplas --CEE
Bill Knocke --CEE
Jimmy Martin --CEE
Dan Gallagher --CEE
Charles Reinholtz --ME

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards
Nancy Love --CEE 1995
George Filz --CEE 1995
Guo-Quan Lu --MSE 1995
John Little --CEE 1996
Jack Lesko --ESM 1997
Mary Kasarda --ME 1998
Julio Martinez --CEE 1998
Kim Forsten-Williams --ChE 1999
Sanjay Raman --ECE 1999
Amy Bell --ECE 1999
Don Leo --ME 2000
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones --CS 2000
Naren Ramakrishnan --CS 2000
Eunice Santos --CS 2000
Michael Hsiao --ECE 2001 (received while elsewhere)
Anthony Songer --CEE 2001 (received while elsewhere)
Erik Westman --MinE 2002
Craig Woolsey --AOE 2002
Sandeep Shukla --ECE 2002
Dan Stilwell --ECE 2002
Srinidhi Varadarajan --CS 2002
Doug Bowman --CS 2003
Michael Garvin --CEE 2003 (received while elsewhere; joined CEE in 2005)
Kirk Cameron --CS 2004 (received while elsewhere; joined CS in 2005)
Peter Vikesland --CEE 2004
Thomas Hou --ECE 2004
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos --CS 2004 (received while elsewhere; joined CS in 2006)
Thomas Martin --ECE 2005
Allen MacKenzie --ECE 2005
Scott Huxtable --ME 2006
Linsey Marr --CEE 2006
Pavlos Vlachos --ME 2006
Maura Borrego --ME 2006
Dennis Hong --ME 2007
Yong Xu --ECE 2007
Patrick Schaumont --ECE 2007

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Awards
Dan Stillwell --ECE 2003
Thomas Hou --ECE 2003

Army Research Office Young Investigator awards
Mark Stremier --ESM 2004 (received while elsewhere; joined ESM in 2006)

DOE Early Career Principal Investigator
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos --CS 2005 (received while elsewhere)