| Mr | Rajendra | Shimpi | PIEMR INDORE | India | Friction welding | Dissimilar Materials | Excellence in Research |
| Mr | Amir Mohammad | Mirzaei | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | Modeling Welding Strength | Finite fatigue life | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Anamaria | Feier | Polytechnical Uni. of Timisoara (Romania) | Romania | Welding Processes | Deflection and precambering | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Srujan Manohar | MVN | Pondicherry Engineering College | India | Electron Beam Welding & Processing Friction Stir Welding | Micro-Friction Stir Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Germán | Barrionuevo | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Chile | Microstructure-property relationships | Additive manufacturing | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | Kakali | Chowdhury | Presidency University | Bangladesh | Other | Computational Fluid Dynamics, Nanotechnology | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Lohit | Malik | Princeton University | United States | Simulation Sensing and Monitoring | Simulations studies of aerodynamics of the surface of combat airplane for improved performance | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Bohdan | Trembach | Private Joint Stock Company “Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod” | Ukraine | Welding processes | Influence of the core filler composition on the recovery of alloying elements during the self-shielded flux-cored arc welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | CHETAN | TEMBHURKAR | PRIYADARSHINI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING NAGPUR | India | Welding Processes | Analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Sripriyan | K | PSG College of Technology | India | Characterisation of heat sources | fusion welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Pitchipoo | Pandian | PSR Engineering College | India | Welding processes | Welding Parameter Optimization | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | RITANJALI | BEHERA | PUDUCHERRY TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, PUDUCHERRY | India | Joining of advanced materials | Polymer-based Nanocomposites | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Stylianos | Chatzidakis | Purdue University | United States | Residual Stress | Radioactive and Spent Nuclear Fuel | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mahnoor | Sarfraz | Quaid-i-Azam University | Pakistan | Mathematics | Fluid Mechanics | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Upendra Pal | Singh | R B S Engineering Technical Campus | India | Evaluation | Solar P V Systems | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Hiteshkumar | Patil | R C Patel Institute of Technology Shirpur | India | Other | Material | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Kumaraswamy | J | R. L. Jalappa Institute of Technology | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Composite materials science | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Hardik | Nayak | R. N. G. Patel Institute of Technology | India | Other | Hard Turning | Best Faculty Award |
| Dr | Chanakyan | Chandrasekaran | R.V.S. College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India | India | Electron Beam Welding & Processing Friction Stir Welding | Friction Stir Processing, Friction Stir Welding, Composites | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Anindita | Chatterjee | Raghu engineering College | India | Microstructure-property relationships | nano composites | Best Researcher Award |