| 2000 | University of California, Berkeley | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Assistant Professor | David A. Wagner | Systems Security |
| 2000 | University of California, Berkeley | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Assistant Professor | James O'Brien | Computer Graphics |
| 2000 | University of California, Berkeley | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Associate Professor | Kannan Ramchandran | Signal Processing and Communications |
| 2000 | University of California, Berkeley | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Associate Professor | Michael Franklin | Databases |
| 2000 | Stanford University | Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Assistant Professor | Balaji Prabhakar | Simple Ruter Mechanisms for High Speed QoS-Capable Data Networks |
| 2000 | Stanford University | School of Engineering | Harald Trap Friis Professor | Donald C. Cox | Large Scale Mobility Management for Large Heterogeneous Wireless Networks |
| 2000 | Stanford University | Department of Electrical Engineering | Professor | Teresa Meng | Robust and High-Performance Wireless Communication |
| 2000 | University of California, Los Angeles | Computer Science Department | Professor | Adnan Darwiche | Automated Reasoning |
| 2000 | University of Southern California | Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems | Professor | Alan Willner | Ultra-High-Capacity Multiple-Wavelength Optical Communication Systems and Networks |
| 2000 | University of Southern California | Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems | Chairman | Robert Scholtz | Ultra-Wide Band Radio (UWB) Communication and Its Applications for Transmission of Information through Walls and into the Ground |
| 2000 | California Institute of Technology | Department of Electrical Engineering | Associate Professor | Michelle Effros | Mobile and Multi-Media Communications, and Coding for the Internet |