| Dr | Vinesh Kumar | Jain | Engineering College Ajmer | India | IOT Protocols and Standards | IOT | Best Researcher Award |
| Mr | Sujoy | Mondal | RCC Institute of Information Technology | India | Edge Computing, Fog Computing and IOT | real-time audio event detection | Excellence in Research |
| Dr | David | Portugal | Institute of Systems and Robotics | Portugal | IOT Interoperability and Multi-Platform Integration | EHealth IOT Architecture | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Nitin | Burud | University of Surrey | United Kingdom | Sensors Data Management, IOT Mining and Analytics | Structural health monitoring | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jingjing | Duan | Nanjing University of Science and Technology | China | Others | Materials Chemistry | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Youngseok | Lee | Korea Research Institute of Fusion Energy | South Korea | Wearables, Body Sensor Networks, Smart Portable Devices | Sensor | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Dalcimar | Casanova | UTFPR - Federal University of Technology - Paraná | Brazil | Resource Management, Access Control | Machine learning; poultry condominiums | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jinsul | Kim | Chonnam National University | South Korea | Industrial IOT and Factory of Things and Internet of Things | Edge Computing, AI | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Jianyong | Lu | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | China | Others | Space Weather Forecasting | Best Researcher Award |
| Prof | Spyridon | Mouroutsos | Democritus University of Thrace | Greece | Industrial IOT and Factory of Things and Internet of Things | WSN | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Satyanarayana | Nandury | ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA | India | Sensor and Actuator Networks | Evolutionary mechanisms for data analytics in IOT and WSN | Top Researcher Award |
| Dr | Alireza | Keramat | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong | Localization Technologies | Anomaly identification of Arterial Networks: Common Carotid Artery (CCA) | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Himanshu | Mittal | Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women | India | Others | UAV Routing | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | R. Donald | Bartusiak | Collaborative Systems Integration | United States | IOT Interoperability and Multi-Platform Integration | Industrial control systems | Best Researcher Award |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Rui | Sun | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China | Localization Technologies | GNSS positioning and navigation | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Mahmood | Ahmadi | Razi university | Iran | Software Defined Network (SDN) and IOT | Many-field packet classification | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Muhammad Bilal | Khan | COSMATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus | Pakistan | Others | RF sensing for healthcare applications | Excellence in Research |
| Mrs | Kendall | Niles | USACE - Engineer Research and Development Center | United States | IOT Protocols and Standards | electrochemical techniques with IOT | Best Researcher Award |
| Dr | Zimu | Zheng | Huawei Cloud & AI | China | Edge Computing, Fog Computing and IOT | Edge AI | Young Scientist Award |
| Dr | Zimu | Zheng | Huawei Cloud & AI | China | Edge Computing, Fog Computing and IOT | Edge AI | Best Researcher Award |