| Ms | DHANI | SOREN | KIIT UNIVERSITY | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Material Science | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Hayat Hassen | Mohammed | Jimma University | Ethiopia | Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena | Food Science | Excellence in Research |
| Ms | PANDI DIVYA | PORKAI PANDI | NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY | Taiwan | Other | SEMICONDUCTOR | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Mahak | Narang | Delhi Technical Campus | India | Other | Biomedical Signal Processing | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Basma | Dashti | Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research | Kuwait | Other | nutrition and food composition database | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Upendra Pal | Singh | R B S Engineering Technical Campus | India | Evaluation | Solar P V Systems | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Jasmina | Đorđević | Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics | Serbia | Other | Stochastic modeling in biology | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Elena | Scutelnicu | "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati | Romania | Welding processes | Behaviour of materials subjected to welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Naima | FDIL | Marrakesh school of Medicine | Morocco | Other | Inborn Errors of metabolisme | Excellence in Research |
| Prof | Gürel | ÇAM | Iskenderun Technical University | Turkey | Welding Processes | public university | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Guoliang | Qin | Shandong University | China | Welding Processes | Solid-state Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Bekir | Yilbas | Bekir Sami Yilbas, Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | Saudi Arabia | Welding Processes | Thermal and Impact Analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Bing | Yang | State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Additive manufacturing, Fatigue and fracture | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Zhi-he | Dou | School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Synthesis and Preparation of Metal Materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Debasish | Sarkar | National Institute of Technology, Rourkela | India | Other | Biomedical Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Azeem | Pasha | KNSIT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Functionally graded materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jonas | Ringsberg | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden | Residual Stress | Ultimate strength of structures | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Stylianos | Chatzidakis | Purdue University | United States | Residual Stress | Radioactive and Spent Nuclear Fuel | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Gnanamani | A | CSIR-CLRI | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Biological materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Mahmood | Hosseini Aliabadi | Islamic azad university , central Tehran Branch | Iran | Evaluation | reconfiguration | Best Researcher Award |