| Mr | Pankaj | | IIT Roorkee Uttarakhand India | India | Solid state welding | Dissimilar metal joining | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Manikanika | | Chandigarh University | India | Other | Chemistry/ Nanoparticles | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Vageshwar B | | National Institute of Technology, Trichy | India | Other | Energy Harvesting Technique | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | GANGADHAR T G | | SJBIT | India | Including plastics and composites | COMPOSITES | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Shah Samir | | Gujarat technological university | India | Advanced welding | Ultrasonic metal welding | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Joselin Retna Kumar | | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | India | Control and automation | Process Control | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Senthilkumar | | University of Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | Other | Energy storage and conversion | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Habibullah | - | Sichuan University | China | Other | Surface Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Anderson | A | sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology | India | Residual Stress | Surface Coatings | Outstanding Scientist Award |
| Dr | Bovas Herbert Bejaxhin | A | Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS, Chennai | India | Other | Vibration Analysis, Coatings, Surface Analysis in machining, EDM | Outstanding Scientist Award |
| Prof | Gnanamani | A | CSIR-CLRI | India | Microstructure-property relationships | Biological materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | PONSHANMUGAKUMAR | A | Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology | India | Welding Processes | Composite Metal Joining | Best Scholar Award |
| Prof | MOHAN | A | EASWARI ENGINEERING COLLEGE | India | Characterisation of heat sources | waste management from Industries | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Shashikala | A | Acharya Institute of Technology | India | Friction welding | Smart Materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Khizar | Abbas | China University of Geosciences | Pakistan | Neural network applications | Welding Technology | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | YOMNA | ABDALLAH | Universitat Internacional de catalunya | Spain | Welding Processes | Biofabrication/Architecture | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Mohamed | Abdelfattah | Ain shams university | Egypt | Other | Lightweight aggregate | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Maryam | ABDOLAHPOUR SALARI | Institute of Science and Technology | Turkey | Solid state welding | Electronic devices | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Qutaiba Najm | Abdullah | Ministry of Environment | Iraq | Other | Flexural behavior of a box ferrocement beams consisting of self-compacted mortar reinforced by fiber glass mesh and GFRP bars after exposure to high temperatures | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Robsan | Abebe | Wollega University | Ethiopia | Modeling Welding Strength | Based on offline programming simulation | Young Scientist Award |