| Dr | Oliver | Dzobo | University of Johannesburg | South Africa | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | Energy sector | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | saif | alharbi | the national research and development center for sustainable agriculture (Estidamah) | United States | Others | water use efficiency in agriculture | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Bronwin | Patrickson | Flinders University | Australia | Cybersecurity Risk Management and Governance | Mhealth - the importance of privacy and security for key stakeholders | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Rajorshi | Biswas | Penn State Berks | United States | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | Link flooding attack | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Jinguo | Zhai | School of Nursing, Southern Medical University | China | Others | maternity and infant care | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Djamel | Djenouri | UWE, Bristol | United Kingdom | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | IoT, Blockchain | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | EZEKIEL | AGBON | AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA | Nigeria | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | IoT-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sonia | Abdennadher | Higher Colleges of Technology | United Arab Emirates | Others | FinTech/Blockchain/Financial markets | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Lingrui | Kong | Dalian Maritime University | China | Others | Operational Optimization | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Ravi | Chaturvedi | Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden | China | Others | Environment | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Sampson | Anomah | Kumasi Technical University | Ghana | Others | Information Systems Audit | Excellence in Innovation |
| Dr | Indrastanti Ratna | Widiasari | Satya Wacana Christian University | Indonesia | Malware Analysis and Detection | Networking | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yuxing | Yang | Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | China | Intrusion Detection and Prevention | Abnormal Event Detection for Video Surveillance | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | S M A K | Azad | SV College of Engineering | India | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | IoT | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Amani | BENAMOR | University of Limoges | France | Others | Physical Layer Security for Wireless Networks | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Muthukrishnan | A | Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R and D Institute of Science and Technology | India | Others | Magnetized Hopfield Neural Network | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Boquan | Li | College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University | China | Cyber Threat Intelligence and Analysis | multimedia forensics | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Joseph | Forson | UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA | Ghana | Others | Public Sector Finance and sustainability | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Yonghong | Wang | Xinzhou Normal University | China | Cryptography for Cloud Computing and IoT | Authentication and Access Control | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | MOSES | ASHAWA | Glasgow Caledonian University | United Kingdom | Malware Analysis and Detection | Machine learning, cybersecurity | Best Researcher Award |