| Mr | Jingfan | Yang | Purdue University | United States | Materials Science | Metal and Alloy/Structural alloys/Additively manufacturing, environmentally-assisted cracking and radiation | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mrs | Tiffany | Gatesman | Gatesman Environmental Consulting and Engineering LLC | United States | Chemistry | hydro-geochemistry | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Md Mezanur | Rahman | Texas Tech University | United States | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Plant Science and Climate change | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Aqil | Tariq | Mississippi State University | United States | Environmental Science | Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Ashish | Tyagi | Texas A&M University | United States | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Cancer Biology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Chen | Chen | Schlumberger | United States | Engineering | Computational Engineering in Numerical Methods | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Yilin | Chen | University of Washington | United States | Other | Health economics and outcomes research | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Valentina | Chegwin | Columbia University | United States | Social Sciences | Social determinants of health | Young Scientist Award | |
| Mr | Mainak | Sarkar | University of California, San Diego | United States | Engineering | Machine Learning and Data Science | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Ramkumar | Harikrishnakumar | Wichita State University | United States | Engineering | Quantum Computing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | DipKiran | Pradhan Newar | University of Nebraska at Omaha | United States | Computer Science | Software Engineering | Young Scientist Award | |
| Dr | Nataraj | Bojan | University of Virginia | United States | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | Aquatic Toxicology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Shu | Jia | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | Engineering | Biomedical Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Luis | Muro Ynoñán | Field Museum of Natural History | United States | Social Sciences | Archaeology/Anthropology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | JungHyun | Bae | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | United States | Engineering | Nuclear Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Jonathan | Letzter | Columbia University | United States | Arts and Humanities | Architecture | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Tejas Yogesh | Deo | Stanford University | United States | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Condition Monitoring | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mrs | Yicong | Zhu | Stony Brook University | United States | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Multiscale simulation, AI | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Elham | Fallah Shojaie | University of Tulsa | United States | Engineering | Solid Particle Erosion | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Ankita | Agarwal | Wright State University | United States | Computer Science | Data Science | Best Researcher Award | |