| Assist Prof Dr | Siyuan | Wu | China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co., Ltd. | China | Modeling Welding Strength | Weld damage | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Kassahun Amare | Wodaje | Debre Tabor University | Ethiopia | Other | Agriculture | Best Paper Award |
| Prof Dr | Mao-Kuo | Wei | National Dong Hwa University | Taiwan | Other | High Energy Physics and Computational Science | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Xiaowei | Wang | Nanjing Tech University | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Creep-fatigue; Creep; Microstructural damage | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Shing-Hoa | Wang | Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University | Taiwan | Microstructure-property relationships | Phase transformation | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Tzu-Wei | Wang | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan | Other | Biomaterials | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Jianda | Wang | University of International Business and Economics | China | Other | Energy Economics | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Wenjian | Wang | Southwest Jiaotong University | China | Joining of advanced materials | Contact fatigue and control of wheel-rail system | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Hongsheng | Wang | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena | 热化学燃料制取 | Young Scientist Award |
| Mr | Kai | Wang | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China | Including plastics and composites | Automatic fiber placement | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Long | Wan | State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, Harbin Institute of Technology | China | Friction welding | friction stir welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jun | Wan | Wuhan Textile University | China | Joining of advanced materials | Material Interface Science | Young Scientist Award |
| Prof | Alexandre de Macêdo | Wahrhaftig | Federal University of Bahia (UFBa) | Brazil | Modeling Welding Strength | Shear stress, Analytical Solution, Computational Modelling | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | B K L ARUNA | VISWANADHAM | V R Siddhartha Engineering College | India | Other | VLSI Signal Processing | Women Researcher Award |
| Prof | Ashok Kumar | Verma | Govind Ballabh Pant University of Technology and Agriculture, Pantnagar | India | Other | Liquid Bio-fuel technology | Outstanding Scientist Award |
| Mr | Ashutosh | Verma | Indian Institute of Technology Rookee | India | Other | Deformation and strain behaviour of GRS abutments | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Veeramani | Vediyappan | Kyushu university | Japan | Other | Electrochemistry | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Balaji | Vasudevan | Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology | India | Joining of advanced materials | Design and Machining | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Ramasamy | vasudevan | Adhiparasakthi Engineering college | India | Including plastics and composites | Composites | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Afsaneh | Valipouri | Isfahan University of Technology | Iran | Other | Development and optimization of the novel scale-up fabrication method of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) microparticles | Best Researcher Award |