| Mrs | Amber | Hayat | IIT Delhi | India | Authentication and Digital Signatures | Biometrics Security | Women Researcher Award |
| Ms | Fereshteh | Ghasemi | Islamic Azad University of Tabriz Branch | Iran | Authentication and Digital Signatures | A lightweight secure authentication approach based on stream ciphering for RFID-based Internet of Things | Best Scholar Award |
| Mrs | Foroozan | Ghosairi Darbandeh | University of Otago | Iran | Authentication and Digital Signatures | Authentication protocols for WSN | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | manasha | saqib | Institute of technology zakura | India | Authentication and Digital Signatures | Internet of things | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Salvador | Cuñat | Universitat Politècnica de València | Spain | Authentication and Digital Signatures | Security for Industrial IoT devices | Best Researcher Award |