| Mr | Kai-Chih | Chang | Center for Identity, University of Texas at Austin | United States | Others | Identity Threat and Personal Identity Privacy for the Internet of Things | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist Prof Dr | Mokhtar | Mohammadi Ghanatghestani | Islamic Azad University | Iran | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Cybersecurity for IoT | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zexiao | Liang | School of Integrated Circuits, Guangdong University of Technology | China | Others | Machine learning | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof. Dr | Ramesh | GP | St.Peters institute of higher education and Research | India | Cryptography for Cloud Computing and IoT | Effective Identification and Authentication of Healthcare IoT Using Fog Computing with Hybrid Cryptographic Algorithm | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Samsul | Huda | Okayama University | Japan | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | IDS in IoT networks | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Hongwei | Zhu | Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University | China | Cryptographic Implementations and Side-Channel Attacks | Boolean function; linear codes | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mohammad Hassan | Nazari | Niroo Research Institute | Iran | Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analysis | Analyzing effective external interventions/Cybersecurity/ | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | SAMIULLA | ITOO | Jamia Millia Islamia | India | Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols | Design and Analysis of Authentication Protocols Using Cryptographic Techniques | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | Jothimani | S | Bannari amman institute of technology | India | Others | Diagonestics | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Samira | Karimaei | Tehran university of Medical Sciences | Iran | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | microbiology | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Orlando | Harker | Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas | Colombia | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | Renewable Energy, Anaerobic Digestion | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Abdullahi | Arabo | University of the West of England | United Kingdom | Malware Analysis and Detection | Cyber Security | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Christopher | Retiti Diop Emane | Chungbuk National University | Gabon | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | Anomaly Detection in Graph | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Negalign | Wake Hundera | Zhejiang Normal University | China | Cryptography for Privacy and Anonymity | Heterogeneous Public Key Cryptography | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jeonghwan | Park | Pukyong National University | South Korea | Others | Aquaculture and Aquaculture Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Xing | LI | Xi'an Jiaotong University | China | Cybersecurity Risk Management and Governance | Managerial Myopia | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Pengyue | Li | Zhengzhou University | China | Others | Industry, Engineering, Technology Transforming | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Yuting | Gao | South-Central Minzu University | China | Others | digital economy | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Khondaker | Mamun | United International University | Bangladesh | Others | Human Computer Interaction | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Dania Saleem | | HITEC university Taxila, Pakistan | Pakistan | Cryptographic Algorithms and Techniques | CYBERSECURITY | Best Researcher Award |