| Mr | Hengyu | Liu | School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Mr | Victor | Shcherba | Omsk State Technical University | Russia | Excellence in Research | popularengineer.org |
| Prof | Yao | Chen | Soochow University | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Prof | Aldo | Lopes | UNIFEI - Universidade Federal de Itajubá | Brazil | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Prof | Yipeng | Lu | Peking University | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jia | Zeng | Shanghai Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Technologies | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Ms | MENGJIAO | PAN | PolyU | Hong Kong | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Dr | Christos | Mytafides | University of Ioannina | Greece | Excellence in Innovation | popularengineer.org |
| Mr | Ming | Yuan | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Dr | Ju Won | Lim | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Wang | Peng | Huazhong Agricultural University | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Dr | Fei | Tian | Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Dr | Yuhang | Hu | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Mr | Bibhudatta | Mishra | NIT Rourkela | India | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jiann-Jone | Chen | Electrical Engineering/National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | Taiwan | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Ms | Lili | Tang | Huaqiao University | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Dr | Pedro | Silva | The George Washington University | United States | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Prof | Zheng | Xuejun | School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Xiangtan University | China | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |
| Mr | Vahid | Amirkiyaei | Isfahan University of technology | Iran | Best Innovation Award | popularengineer.org |
| Mr | Mehran | Ghodrati | Dept.of Civil Eng., K.N. Toosi University of Technology | Iran | Best Researcher Award | popularengineer.org |