A. M. Turing Awards
- E. Allen Emerson (2007)
- Edsger Dijkstra (1972)
National Academy of Engineering Members
- Jayadev Misra (2018)
- Simon S. Lam (2007)
- J Strother Moore (2007)
National Academy of Sciences Member
- William H. Press(1994)
Career Research Excellence Awards
Research Excellence Awards
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows
- William H. Press (1993)
- Edsger Dijkstra (1975)
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellows
- Brent Waters (2011)
- Tandy Warnow (1996)
- David I. Zuckerman (1996)
John S. Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
- Tandy Warnow (2011)
- Peter Stone (2008)
- David I. Zuckerman (2004)
- Jayadev Misra (1989)
Radcliffe Fellowships
- David I. Zuckerman (2004)
- Tandy Warnow (2003)
SIAM Fellow
- Chandrajit Bajaj (2016)
- Inderjit S. Dhillon (2014)
Sloan Fellowships
- Alex Huth (2018)
- Simon Peter (2018)
- Isil Dillig (2015)
- Pradeep Ravikumar (2014)
- Kristen Grauman (2012)
- Michael Walfish (2012)
- Brent Waters (2010)
- Peter Stone (2004)
- Doug Burger (2002)
- Stephen W. Keckler (2002)
- Lorenzo Alvisi (2001)
- Anna Gál (2001)
- Michael D. Dahlin (2000)
- David I. Zuckerman (1996)
- William H. Press (1974)
Simons Investigator Award
- Brent Waters (2019)
- Scott Aaronson (2017)
- David Zuckerman (2016)
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards
- Joydeep Biswas (2021)
- Qixing Huang (2021)
- Qiang Liu (2019)
- Philipp Krähenbühl (2019)
- Christopher Rossbach (2019)
- Scott Niekum (2018)
- Simon Peter (2018)
- Vijay Chidambaram (2018)
- Eric Price (2018)
- Isil Dillig (2015)
- Michael Walfish (2011)
- Brent Waters (2010)
- Kristen Grauman (2008)
- Vitaly Shmatikov (2007)
- Adam Klivans (2007)
- Emmett Witchel (2007)
- Lili Qiu (2006)
- Yin Zhang (2006)
- William R. Cook (2005)
- Peter Stone (2003)
- Inderjit S. Dhillon (2001)
- Doug Burger (2000)
- Stephen W. Keckler (2000)
- Calvin Lin (2000)
- Anna Gál (1999)
- Lorenzo Alvisi (1998)
- Michael D. Dahlin (1998)
- Kathryn S. McKinley (1996)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Young Investigator Awards
- David I. Zuckerman (1994)
- Tandy Warnow (1994)
- Keshav Pingali (1989)
- Bruce W. Porter (1988)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows
- Lili Qui (2018)
- Inderjit S. Dhillon (2014)
- David I. Zuckerman (2013)
- Keshav Pingali (2012)
- Stephen W. Keckler (2011)
- Lorenzo Alvisi (2010)
- Michael D. Dahlin (2010)
- Raymond J. Mooney (2010)
- Doug Burger (2010)
- Chandrajit Bajaj (2009)
- Kathryn S. McKinley (2008)
- J Strother Moore (2006)
- Simon S. Lam (1998)
- James C. Browne (1998)
- James C. Browne (1998)
- Jayadev Misra (1995)
- Edsger Dijkstra (1994)
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows
- Lorenzo Alvisi (2015)
- Risto Miikkulainen (2015)
- Inderjit S. Dhillon (2013)
- Chandrajit Bajaj (2013)
- Kathryn S. McKinley (2011)
- Stephen W. Keckler (2011)
- Michael D. Dahlin (2011)
- Keshav Pingali (2010)
- Doug Burger (2010)
- Jayadev Misra (1992)
- Simon S. Lam (1985)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellows
- Peter Stone (2012)
- Raymond J. Mooney (2006)
- Robert S. Boyer (1991)
- J Strother Moore (1991)
- Vladimir Lifschitz (1991)
- Elaine Rich (1991)
American Physical Society Fellows
- William H. Press (1981)
- James C. Browne
British Computer Society Fellows
- Edsger Dijkstra (1971)
- James C. Browne
Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas (TAMEST)
- Doug Burger (2010)
- Stephen W. Keckler (2010)
Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas
- William H. Press (2007)
- Simon S. Lam (2007)
- J Strother Moore (2007)
University Cooperative Society's Career Research Excellence Award
- James C. Browne (2004)
University Cooperative Society's Research Excellence Award
- Inderjit S. Dhillon (2005)
- Doug Burger (2002)
- Stephen W. Keckler (2002)
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- Peter Stone (2018)
- William Press (2013)
- Keshav Pingali (2009)
- Chandrajit Bajaj (2008)
- James C. Browne (1992)