| Mr | Ashutosh | Verma | Indian Institute of Technology Rookee | India | Other | Deformation and strain behaviour of GRS abutments | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Ikbel | Mallek-Zouari | l’Institut Supérieur des Études Technologiques en Communications de Tunis (Iset’Com) et facuilté des sciences de Tunis | Tunisia | Microstructure-property relationships | Physique/Nanomaterials/environment | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Luis Dante | Melendez | CIATEQ / TC Energy | Mexico | Other | In-Service Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | MennatAllah | AbouHasswa | Ain-Shams University | Egypt | Solid state welding | materials science | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Mahak | Narang | Delhi Technical Campus | India | Other | Biomedical Signal Processing | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Cynthia | Abima | University of Johannesburg South Africa and Pan Atlantic University Lagos | South Africa | Welding Processes | Advanced welding processses | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Johnson | Oluremi | Ladoke Akintola University of Technology | Nigeria | Other | Civil Engineering/Geotechnical/Waste materials recycling and reuse | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Mirco Daniel | Chapetti | University of Mar del Plata - CONICET | Argentina | Modeling Welding Strength | Fatigue integrity | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mohamed | Arif | zagazig university | Egypt | Other | geopolymer- waste water treatment | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Olagoke | Olabisi | Infra-Tech Consulting LLC | United States | Simulation Sensing and Monitoring | Internal Corrosion Monitoring | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Joseph Bophelo | Morake | Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology | Kenya | Residual Stress | Failure of boiler pipes due to residual stresses | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Muhammad Iftikhar | Khan | University of Lahore | Pakistan | Other | Physics (Materials Science) | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Satendra | Chauhan | Homi Bhabha National Institute | India | Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena | Heat transfer and Fluid flow modeling | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Won-Chol | Yang | Kim Chaek University of Technology | North Korea | Evaluation | Modeling, optimization, multi-criteria decision making in materials engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Kaihsiang | Lin | UW | Taiwan | Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena | Radiative properties and oxidation | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Hasham | Shafi | Central Drug Research institute | India | Other | Drug Delivery | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Marta | Buszko | Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences | Poland | Microstructure-property relationships | Material degradation | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Mohammad Ali | Rezvani | Department of chemistry/Zanjan university | Iran | Other | Nanocatalyst/inorganich chemistry/chemistry | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ahad | Samadi | Sanahd University of Technology | Iran | Brazing | Phase transformations | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Shuang | Cui | university of Texas at Dallas | United States | Joining of advanced materials | - | Best Researcher Award |