| Mr | Omer | Tariq | KAIST | South Korea | Cryptography for Cloud Computing and IoT | Cryptographic Accelerators | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Majid | Khan | Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics | Pakistan | Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols | Cryptanalysis, Cryptography, Cyber threat analysis | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Rahmat-Allah | Hooshmand | University of Isfahan | Iran | Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management | Critical infrastructure resilience | Top Researcher Award |
| Mr | Frédéric | Ouellet | Université de Montréal | Canada | Others | Criminology, criminal career, criminal achievement, desistance | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Adam Gana | Bawa | Lovely Professional Phagwara/Borno State University Maiduguri | Nigeria | Others | Criminology and Security Studies | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof Dr | Roman | Veresha | Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine | Ukraine | Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Cryptography. | Criminological and victimological safety of society during quarantine measures related to COVID-19 | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Reshmi | Dutta-Flanders | University of Kent | United Kingdom | Cybersecurity Education and Training | Crime and criminality analysis/Linguistic Stylistic, Discourse analysis/Education and Training | Excellence in Research |
| Assist Prof Dr | Bestegül | ÇORUH AKYOL | Ordu University Faculty of Medicine Family Medicine Department | Turkey | Others | Covid-19 Vaccines | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Sourabh | Debnath | National Institute of Technology Rourkela | India | Information Hiding and Steganography | Coverless Steganography | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Anthony | Hodgson | H3Uni | United Kingdom | Others | Cosmic Ecology | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Chenglong | Wang | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | China | Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management | Corporate Finance | Best Researcher Award |
| Ms | Shailu | Sachan | MANIT Bhopal | India | Others | Control System | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Omid | Elhaki | Department of Electrical Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran | Iran | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Control engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Manas | Sarkar | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | Malware Analysis and Detection | Construction materials | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Yikun | PAN | Hong Kong PolyU | Hong Kong | Others | Computer vision/ video anomaly detection | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sathiyaprasad | B | Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology | India | Others | Computer Science and Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Islam | Zada | International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan | Pakistan | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | Computer Science & Software Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Mrs | Sushama | Deshmukh | JNEC MGMU Aurangabad | India | Cryptography for Privacy and Anonymity | Computer Science & Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Amir | Ali | University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore, Pakistan | Pakistan | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | Computer Science | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Huda | Ahmed | University of Basrah/ College of Computer Science and Information Technology | Iraq | Others | Computer Networks Security | Innovations in Mobile Security |