| Dr | Pitchipoo | Pandian | PSR Engineering College | India | Welding processes | Welding Parameter Optimization | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zhaoyang | Yan | Beijing University of Technology | China | Welding Processes | Welding method / Wire and Arc additive manufacturing | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | yanyun | Zhang | Northeastern University | China | Joining of advanced materials | Welding Metallurgy | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Avishkar | Bhoskar | SVNIT, Surat | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Welding Metallurgy | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Rouholah | Ashiri | Iran University of Science and Technology | Iran | Microstructure-property relationships | Welding Metallurgy | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yury | Korobov | M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Phase transformations in weldments | Welding materials of metastable austenite structure | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Dan | Birsan | Dunarea de Jos University of Galati | Romania | Modeling Welding Strength | welding FEA | welding Excellence Award |
| Mr | Raj Jawahar | R | Dynamech Design Solution | India | Friction welding | Welding design & Characterization | Young Scientist Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Hitesh | Arora | Lovely Professional university | India | Residual Stress | Welding defects in oil and petroleum gas industries | Top Researcher Award |
| Dr | Farook | Sayyad | Ajeenkya DY Patil School of Engineering, Pune, India | India | Welding Processes | Welding defects | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | MOHAMMED | ZUBAIRUDDIN | Aditya Engineering College Surampalem Andhrapradesh | India | Residual Stress | Welding Analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | K.Anton Savio | Lewise | Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences | India | Residual Stress | Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Sivaraman | Parthasarathi | Sri Krishna College of Technology | India | Friction welding | Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Mojtaba | Esmailzadeh | Persian Gulf university | Iran | Welding Processes | welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Antonio | Pereira | University of Aveiro | Portugal | Welding Processes | Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Nitin | Saini | University of Alberta | Canada | Welding Processes | Weldability of power plant steels | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Fu | Chao | Shandong institute of petroleum and chemical technology | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Weldability of High-Grade Pipeline Steel | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Chris | Killmore | BlueScope Steel | Australia | Microstructure-property relationships | Weld zone softening during thermal cutting of Abrasion resistant plate | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Siyuan | Wu | China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co., Ltd. | China | Modeling Welding Strength | Weld damage | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Yaguang | Zhu | Chang'an University | China | Control and automation | Weld Beads Grinding Robot | Best Researcher Award |
