| Assist Prof Dr | Hyeok Hweon | Kang | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | Other | History of metalworking | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Beata | Skowrońska | Warsaw University of Technology/Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | Poland | Joining of advanced materials | friction welding; hybrid fusion welding | Young Scientist Award |
| Mr | Dame Alemayehu | Efa | Wallaga University | Ethiopia | Welding Processes | Laser Beam Welding Parametric Optimization for AZ31B and 6061-T6 Alloys: Residual Stress and Temperature Analysis Using a CCD, GA and ANN | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Ashish | Thakur | Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Material science | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Branko | Matovic | Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of thе Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade | Serbia | Microstructure-property relationships | solid state welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Ivana | Validzic | Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science, University in Belgrade, Serbia | Serbia | Joining of advanced materials | Energy materials and photovoltaics | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | DHANA LAKSHMI | B | VIGNANS INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | India | Welding Processes | Welding Technology | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sampath Kumar | T | Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore Campus, | India | Residual Stress | Peening approaches | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Tapano Kumar | Hotta | Vellore Institute of Technology | India | Other | Heat Transfer/Electronic Cooling | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ramesh Kumar | R | Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology | India | Friction welding | Friction Welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | DHARMALINGAM | G | Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of science and Technology | India | Microjoining Process Diffusion Bonding | Additive Manufacturing, powder metallurgy, materials characterization, welding | 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 | C | Anil Kumar Reddy | Vardhaman College of Engineering | India | Other | Material Characterization | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | B K L ARUNA | VISWANADHAM | V R Siddhartha Engineering College | India | Other | VLSI Signal Processing | Women Researcher Award |
| Dr | Kaihsiang | Lin | UW | Taiwan | Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena | Radiative properties and oxidation | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Hossein | Showkati | Urmia University | Iran | Modeling Welding Strength | Experimental and Numerical Research | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Robab | Naseri Ghalghachi | Urmia university | Iran | Including plastics and composites | Fiber reinforced polymer composite materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Sandra | Chacón-Fernández | UPM | Spain | Welding Processes | GMAW | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Gopalakrishnan | Govindasamy | UPES | India | Other | Chemical/Catalysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Amir | Baghdadchi | University West | Sweden | Phase transformations in weldments | Phase analysis | Young Scientist Award |