| Prof | Harvinder | Singh | Chandigarh Engineering College Landran(Mohali) | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Surface Coatings | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Pramod Kumar | Singh | Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow | India | Residual Stress | BCS LEACHATES CHARACTERIZATION AND STABILIZATION | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Umer | Zahid | University of Wollongong | Australia | Other | Structural Mechanics | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mayuri | Baruah | National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur | India | Welding Processes | Laser Welding, FSW, Plasma Welding, Simulation of welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Tapano Kumar | Hotta | Vellore Institute of Technology | India | Other | Heat Transfer/Electronic Cooling | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Jagdhar | Mandal | T.M.B.U. Bhagalpur | India | Welding Processes | Condensed Matter/ Alloys | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ragupathi | Masilamani | IITM Chennai | India | Phase transformations in weldments | Tubular Joint | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Lei | Guo | Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Admin | China | Joining of advanced materials | Steel-Concrete Composite Structures; Enerdy Dissipation Device | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sanjeev | Kumar | Subharti Institute of Technology and Engineering | India | Welding Processes | Friction Stir Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zhang | Long | Chongqing University of Science and Technology | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Mechanics | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Khubaib | Ghumman | national university of sciences and technology NUST, islamabad, pakistan | Pakistan | Welding processes | TIG welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | Anjani | Bhartiam | P.G. Department of T.M.B.U Bhagalpur | India | Other | Alloys | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Manjusha | Battabyal | International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), India | India | Microjoining Process Diffusion Bonding | Thermoelectric device, contact resistance, device efficiency, transport properties, electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Shreyas | Alagundi | Arcadis | India | Neural network applications | Civil and Structural Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Hudan | Tang | Henan Polytechnical University | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Damage propagation and microstructure geometry/ Mechanical and mathematical models/ Stability analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Ashish | Thakur | Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Material science | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Pietro | De Giovanni | Luiss Guido Carli | Italy | Evaluation | Green practices | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Tong | Qiu | Shenzhen University | China | Evaluation | Mechanical properties evaluation of welded assembled joints | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Farrokh | Khoshahval | Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute | Iran | Other | Advanced fuel and burnable absorbers designed for long-cycle operation of BNPP | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Yahya Hoque | Mozumder | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Lightweight steel | Best Researcher Award |