| Dr | Pitchipoo | Pandian | PSR Engineering College | India | Welding processes | Welding Parameter Optimization | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Pratap | Sonawane | MCOERC Nasik,Maharashtra | India | Other | Manufacturing | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Suresh Kumar | Telagathoti | NIT-Andhra Pradesh | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Mechanical behaviour of Weld joints under Thermal-Mechanical Loading | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Prasanta | Majumder | National Institute of Technology Mizoram, India | India | Characterisation of heat sources | Welding Processes | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Pralhad | Patole | Bharati Vidyapeeths College of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India | India | Other | Machining with nano fluid, Design of Experimentseriments, Research M | Excellence in Research |
| Mr | Sundar Singh | Sivam S.P | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | India | Other | Engineering optimization, welding, metal forming | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | TANMAI SAI GEETHA | CHALLA | Otto-von-guericke university | Germany | Other | Manufacturing | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Geethapriyan | Thangamani | Indian Institute of Technology Indore | India | Other | Laser Beam Machining process | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Anindita | Chatterjee | Raghu engineering College | India | Microstructure-property relationships | nano composites | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | SUBHADIP | NEOGI | CSIR-CSMCRI | India | Other | Inorganic Chemistry | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | RAJESH | AGARWAL | SRMIST CHENNAI | India | Other | MICROELECTRONICS | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | DEVI | RADHIKA | FET, JAIN DEEMED-TO-BE UNIVERSITY | India | Other | Fabrication and performance of Nano-composites | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Achyut | Trivedi | Ganpat University | India | Advanced welding | Additive Manufacturing | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | afreen | khursheed | IIIT BHOPAL | India | Other | vlsi and nanotechnology | Women Researcher Award |
| Prof | Azeem | Pasha | KNSIT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Functionally graded materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | VINEET | KUMAR | IIT (BHU) Varanasi | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Waste utilization | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Debasish | Sarkar | National Institute of Technology, Rourkela | India | Other | Biomedical Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | RADHAKRISHNAN | K | K. RAMAKRISHNAN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (AUTONOMOUS) | India | Welding Processes | Optimization, Parameter analysis. | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Devinder | Yadav | Indian Institute of Technology Patna | India | Advanced welding | Friction surfacing | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Pankaj | | IIT Roorkee Uttarakhand India | India | Solid state welding | Dissimilar metal joining | Best Researcher Award |