| Dr | Popat | Kumbhar | K.E.Society's, Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Rajaramnagar, (Sangli), MS,India | India | Other | Structural Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sudesh | Singh | Tsinghua University | China | Including plastics and composites | Composites | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sandipkumar | Sonawane | MVPSs KBT College of Engineering | India | Characterisation of heat sources | Heat Transfer in Nanofluids | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | MennatAllah | AbouHasswa | Ain-Shams University | Egypt | Solid state welding | materials science | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | VIjaya Geetha | Bose | Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India | India | Other | Environmental Toxicology | Women 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 | Steve | Efe | Morgan State University | United States | Simulation Sensing and Monitoring | Education | Best Faculty Award |
| Dr | Johnson | Oluremi | Ladoke Akintola University of Technology | Nigeria | Other | Civil Engineering/Geotechnical/Waste materials recycling and reuse | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mohamed | Arif | zagazig university | Egypt | Other | geopolymer- waste water treatment | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Muhammad Iftikhar | Khan | University of Lahore | Pakistan | Other | Physics (Materials Science) | 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 |
| Dr | Farzad | Habibi | Sahand University of Technology | Iran | Brazing | Carbide to steel joining | Best Paper Award |
| Dr | Ahad | Samadi | Sanahd University of Technology | Iran | Brazing | Phase transformations | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Wegdan | El-Nadoury | Horus University-Egypt | Egypt | Other | Modelling heat evolution and transfer | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Hossam | Sharaka | Egyptian Geological Survey | Egypt | Joining of advanced materials | Therma treatment and Geopolymers | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mahmoud | Eid | Faculty of science, Tanta university | Egypt | Other | Enhancing properties of smart Nano-materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | narinder | singh | University of Naples "Parthenope" | Italy | Other | material technology | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | José Miguel | Davila | Universidad de Huelva | Spain | Microstructure-property relationships | Concrete degradation | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Pascual | Saura Gómez | Universidad de Alicante | Spain | Other | Corrosión de armaduras en el hormigón armado de los forjados sanitarios | Best Researcher Award |