| Mr | Vincent | Edeh | Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn | Australia | Computer Science | Artificial Intelligence | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Hee Jeong | Hwang | Ewha Womans University | South Korea | Other | Food Processing / Non-thermal processing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Yusen | Geng | School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University | China | Engineering | Industrial Robots and Machine Vision | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Amina | Ibrahim | Theodor Bilharz Rteesearch Institu | Egypt | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | invertebrates and parasitology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Fang | Hu | Hubei University of Chinese Medicine | China | Computer Science | Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Mobile Computing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Souhail | Dhouib | University of Sfax/ | Tunisia | Decision Sciences | Metaheuristic/Optimization | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Wei | Wang | Lanzhou University | China | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Agro-ecology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Boobalan | S C | Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology | India | Engineering | Civil Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Ahmad | Alqudah | Qatar University | Qatar | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Plant Genetics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Deepak Chandra | Chandola | Banasthali Vidyapith University | India | Engineering | Aircraft Maintenance | Young Scientist Award | |
| Ms | Rong | Song | Nanjing University | China | Environmental Science | Air Pollution and Climate Change | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mrs | Sara | Abdollahi | Ferdowsi University of Mashhad | Switzerland | Health Professions | Medical Physics | Women Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Nourou Dine Adeniran | Bankole | Centre d'investigation clinique et innovation technologique-CHRU Tours | France | Neuroscience | Neurosurgery | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Biswajit | Saha | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | India | Chemical Engineering | Advanced Material | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Weiwei | Shao | China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research | China | Engineering | Hydrology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Minhui | Li | Baotou Medical College | China | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | Traditional Chinese Medicine, Natural products chemistry, Ethnopharmacology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Qinghong | Liao | Nanchang University | China | Physics and Astronomy | Quantum information | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | LIfang | Zhou | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | China | Computer Science | Adaptive illumination-invariant face recognition via local nonlinear multi-layer contrast feature | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Young Kwan | Sohn | Gyeongsang National University | South Korea | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Volcanology, sedimentology | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Regia | Pereira Silva | National Institute for Space Research - INPE | Brazil | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Aeronomy/Ionosphere/Electrodynamics | Best Researcher Award | |