| Mr | Salvador | Cuñat | Universitat Politècnica de València | Spain | Authentication and Digital Signatures | Security for Industrial IoT devices | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Kyung-Min | Kim | Kyungpook National University | South Korea | Incident Response and Digital Forensics | rice | Best Scholar Award |
| Dr | VINOTH KUMAR | J | Kyunghee University | South Korea | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Material Chemistry | CyberGuard Excellence Award |
| Prof | Jeonghwan | Park | Pukyong National University | South Korea | Others | Aquaculture and Aquaculture Engineering | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Kyoung Jae | Lim | Kangwon National University | South Korea | Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Cryptography. | Agricultural Water Management | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Jordan Junior | Kamese | Inje University | South Korea | Others | Precision Healthcare | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Shin Ae | Hong | SungKyunKwan University | South Korea | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | international cybersecurity | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | JunYoung | Son | Korea Atomic Energy Reserarch Institute | South Korea | Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems | Cybersecurity and Cryptography | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jun-Young | Oh | Institute for Integrated Science Education | South Korea | Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Cryptography. | Instruction for Nature of Science | Best Paper Award |
| Dr | Kyung Suk | Lee | Incheon National University | South Korea | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | International Security | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Jiwon | Kim | Hankyong National University | South Korea | Others | work-life balance (WLB) for workers with disabilities | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Min-Joon | Kim | Catholic University of Pusan | South Korea | Cryptographic Algorithms and Techniques | Economic; Export and Import; Finance; Marketing; Trade Balance | Excellence in Research |
| Mr | Omer | Tariq | KAIST | South Korea | Cryptography for Cloud Computing and IoT | Cryptographic Accelerators | Best Researcher Award |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | MANISH | KUMAR | Seoul National University of Science and Technology | South Korea | Human Factors in Cybersecurity and Cryptography. | IoT, Digital Twin, Resource Allocation, Authentication | Excellence in Privacy-Preserving Technologies |
| Ms | SANA | NAZ | Hanyang University | South Korea | Cryptography for Blockchain and Distributed Systems | Blockchain Consensus | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Desiree | Hamman-Fisher | University of the Western Cape | South Africa | Cybersecurity and Cryptography Policies and Regulations | Education and Industrial Psychology | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Mashel | Gonyora | University of Strathclyde | South Africa | Incident Response and Digital Forensics | Human and Organisational Factors | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Dries | Putter | Stellenbosch University | South Africa | Others | Intelligence Studies | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | Abraham | Ogofure | University of Johannesburg | South Africa | Others | Biotechnology | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | WIZA | MUNYEKA | UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL | South Africa | Others | work-life balance and ICT | Best Researcher Award |