| Dr | Vipin | Tandon | Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal | India | Welding Processes | Dissimilar Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Pankaj | | IIT Roorkee Uttarakhand India | India | Solid state welding | Dissimilar metal joining | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Rajendra | Shimpi | PIEMR INDORE | India | Friction welding | Dissimilar Materials | Excellence in Research |
| Prof Dr | Mohammad Washim | Dewan | Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur | Bangladesh | Welding Processes | Dissimilar Material Joining | Excellence in Research |
| Mr | Hossam | Balaha | University of Louisville | United States | Neural network applications | Disease and Cancer Diagnoses using AI | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Lorenzo | Torrisi | Università degli studi di Messina | Italy | Microstructure-property relationships | Diffusione di Ar in Grafene e grafene oxide | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Kun | Liu | Jiangsu University of Science and Technology | China | Advanced welding | Diffusion bonding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Viktoriia | Talaniuk | Institute of electrowelding by E.O. Patona. Kiev. Ukraine | Ukraine | Joining of advanced materials | Development of Polyhydroxybutyrate-Based Packaging Films and Methods to Their Ultrasonic Welding | 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 |
| 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 |
| Mr | Nand Jee | Kanu | JSPM Narhe Technical Campus, Pune | India | Evaluation | Design and CFD analyses of aluminium alloy-based vortex tubes with multiple inlet nozzles for their optimum performances in sustainable applications | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Kashish | Badwal | Netaji Subhas University of Technology | India | Welding processes | Deformation in Solids | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Ashutosh | Verma | Indian Institute of Technology Rookee | India | Other | Deformation and strain behaviour of GRS abutments | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Anamaria | Feier | Polytechnical Uni. of Timisoara (Romania) | Romania | Welding Processes | Deflection and precambering | Women Researcher Award |
| Mrs | VALARMATHI | G | Sri Sairam Institute of Technology | India | Neural network applications | Deep learning | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Karim | Choubani | Imam Mohamed bin Saoud university | Saudi Arabia | Other | DCMD | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Frédéric | LACHAUD | Institut Clément Ader | France | Other | Damage, Failure, Bio-Composite | Top 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 |
| Ms | INDUSHREE | M | Bennett University | India | Other | Cybersecurity with Blockchain | Young Scientist Award |
| Prof Dr | P Lalitha | Surya Kumari | K L University | India | Other | Cryptography, Blockchain, Machine Learning and IoT | Women Researcher Award |