| Mrs | Masoumeh | Abolfathi | University of Colorado, Denver | United States | Biometrics and Security | Security and Privacy | Best Researcher Award | |
| Ms | Lin | Gan | Northwestern Polytechnical University | China | Biometrics and Security | Acoustics | Best Researcher Award | scifat.com |
| Mrs | Emna | BenSaid | National School of Engineers of Sfax ENIS | Tunisia | Biometrics and Security | Deep keypoints adversarial attack on face recognition systems | Best Researcher Award | scifat.com |
| Mr | Mohamed | NEJI | National School Of Electronics and Telecommunications of Sfax, University of Sfax | Tunisia | Biometrics and Security | Face recognition | Best Researcher Award | scifat.com |
| Mr | Soumen | Roy | University of Calcutta | India | Biometrics and Security | Keystroke dynamics | Best Researcher Award | |
| Mr | El Ouanas | Belabbaci | université de bejaia | Algeria | Biometrics and Security | vérification de la parenté à partir des images facial | Best Researcher Award | scifat.com |
| Assist Prof Dr | Wen-Bin | Hsieh | National Taitung University | Taiwan | Biometrics and Security | Security / Access control | Best Researcher Award | scifat.com |
| Dr | Sakthivel | Sankaran | Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education | India | Biomedical and Healthcare Applications | Biomechanics, Rehabilitation Engineering | Best Researcher Award | scifat.com |
| Mr | Ankur | Saxena | Sandip Institiute of Technology and Research Centre | India | Biomedical and Healthcare Applications | Sensor Design | | scifat.com |
| Dr | Yongkang | Lyu | Shandong Normal University | China | Biomedical and Healthcare Applications | computational molecular biology | | scifat.com |