| Dr | Haris Moazam | Sheikh | University of California, Berkeley | United States | Computer technology for design and simulation | Mechanical design optimization | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Abdelhalim | Mohamed | University of Wyoming | United States | Others | Petroleum Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Wenya | Shu | Virginia Tech | United States | Solid mechanics | mechanics of composite materials | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Zhiyue | Wang | University of Hawaii | United States | Others | Environmental Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Terry | Church | University of Southern California | United States | Others | Regulatory and Quality Sciences | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Arezoo | Ardekani | Purdue University | United States | Fluid mechanics | Biofluids | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Rina | Mudanyi | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University | United States | Materials selection and structural design | Chemistry and material science | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mrs | Kelly | Kipp | Independant Researcher | United States | Computer technology for design and simulation | Nursing | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Sara | Momtaz | Boys Town National Research Hospital | United States | Computer technology for design and simulation | Spatial hearing | Excellence in Research | |
| Mr | Omar | Abuodeh | Clemson University | United States | Automated inspection | System Identification; Indirect Health Monitoring | Best Researcher Award | |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Mehdi | Mekni | University of New Haven | United States | Computer technology for design and simulation | Real-time software development | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Haneesh | Kesari | Brown University | United States | Solid mechanics | Biomechanics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Alex | Spyropoulos | Northwell Health | United States | Decision support systems | Medicine | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Staci | Capozzi | Indiana University | United States | Demolition/remediation | Environmental Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof Dr | Peiwen | Li | University of Arizona | United States | Heat transfer | Heat and fluid flow for energy and power systems. | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | Dishant | Banga | Bridgetree | United States | Others | Analytics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Shailendra | Varma | The University of Texas at El Paso | United States | Materials selection and structural design | High Entropy Alloys | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Anuradha | Khetwal | Colorado School of Mines | United States | Computer technology for design and simulation | Introducing uniform discrete event simulation (CSM2020) for modeling the TBM tunneling process | Best Researcher Award | |
| Prof | xinran | xiao | Michigan State University | United States | Solid mechanics | Experimental, computation | Best Researcher Award | |
| Dr | Tahir Cetin | AKINCI | University of California Riverside | United States | Others | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Best Researcher Award | |