| Dr | Byoungsoo | LEE | Korea Institute of Industrial Technology | South Korea | Manufacturing processes | Development of AM process for high functional materials | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Farnaz | Ghorbani | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany | Materials selection and structural design | Biomaterial 3D printing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | Jian | Cheng | Harbin institute of technology | China | Manufacturing processes | Ultra-precision machining of optical components | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Soroush | Rastegarpour | ABB Corporate Research Center | Sweden | Intelligent control systems | Process control and optimization | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Lobat | Taghavi | Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN | Iran | Quality control | Environmental Pollution | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Somak | Bhattacharyya | IIT (BHU), Varanasi | India | Design of mechanical and electromechanical devices | Electro,agnetics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Wenbo | Ma | Xiangtan University | China | Computer aided machine design | Sintered ore; single roll crusher; crushing mechanism; JH-2 constitutive model. | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | D S | Hooda | GJ University of Science & Technology | India | Others | Information Theory and Fuzzy Mathematics with application | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Abed | Malti | Octi-startup | United States | Intelligent control systems | Computer Vision with Mechanical priors | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Ali | Mollajan | University of Tehran | Iran | Industrial engineering | Systems Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |