| Mrs | B K L ARUNA | VISWANADHAM | V R Siddhartha Engineering College | India | Other | VLSI Signal Processing | Women Researcher Award |
| Prof | MOHAN | A | EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE | India | Characterisation of heat sources | waste management from Industries | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | JOTHILINGAM | M | ICCW IITM Chennai | India | Evaluation | Waste to wealth | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | VINEET | KUMAR | IIT (BHU) Varanasi | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Waste utilization | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Kenatu | Angassa | Addis Ababa Science and Technology | Ethiopia | Other | Water and wastewater Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Antonella | Gervasini | Università degli Studi di Milano | Italy | Other | Water remediation | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | chao | huang | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Joining of advanced materials | water splitting, supercapacitor, battery | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | Letícia | Costa | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | Brazil | Other | watertreatment | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jianzhong | Li | Northeastern University | China | Other | Weilding resource recycling | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Yaguang | Zhu | Chang'an University | China | Control and automation | Weld Beads Grinding Robot | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Siyuan | Wu | China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co., Ltd. | China | Modeling Welding Strength | Weld damage | 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 |
| Mr | Fu | Chao | Shandong institute of petroleum and chemical technology | China | Microstructure-property relationships | Weldability of High-Grade Pipeline Steel | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Nitin | Saini | University of Alberta | Canada | Welding Processes | Weldability of power plant steels | 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 | MOHAMMED | ZUBAIRUDDIN | Aditya Engineering College Surampalem Andhrapradesh | India | Residual Stress | Welding Analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Farook | Sayyad | Ajeenkya DY Patil School of Engineering, Pune, India | India | Welding Processes | Welding defects | Best Researcher Award |