| Assoc Prof Dr | Tiratha Raj | Singh | Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT) | India | Other | Bioinformatics | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Tamgid Ahmed | Chowdhury | North South University | Bangladesh | Business, Management and Accounting | Human Resource Management | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Getachew | Agegnehu | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics | Ethiopia | Agricultural Sciences | Environmental Science | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Jagdish M | Rathod | BVM Engineering College | India | Engineering | RF & Wireless Engg | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Che-Wei | Chang | National Taiwan University of Sport | Taiwan | Decision Sciences | Business and Management | Excellence in Research | |
| Prof | Asghari | Bano | Deptt.Biosciences,University of Wah | Canada | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Plant Physiology,Plant Microbe Interaction | Excellence in Research | |
| Prof | Suman | Kapur | Birla Institute of Technology and Science | India | Medicine and Dentistry | Mother and child care | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Raseswari | Pradhan | Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla | India | Engineering | Industrial Electronics and Control System, Renewable System control, Application of Adaptive Controllers, Islanding detection, Micro grid Design and Control | Excellence in Research | |
| Assist Prof Dr | Sandro | Serpa | University of the Azores | Portugal | Social Sciences | Sociology | Excellence in Research | |
| Prof | Arup | Chattopadhyay | Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya | India | Agricultural Sciences | Vegetable Breeding | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | K.S. | Tamilselvan | KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology | India | Engineering | Electronics and Communication Engineering | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Prabhudutta | Mamidi | AIIMS, Bhubaneswar | India | Immunology and Microbiology | Infectious Disease Biology | Excellence in Research | |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Giuseppe | Lanza | University of Catania | Italy | Neuroscience | Translational Neurology | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Shilpa | Kewate | Pillai HOC college of Engineering and Technology | India | Engineering | Civil Engineering | Excellence in Research | |
| Mr | Deepak | Dasaratha Rao | Infosys | United States | Computer Science | Software and IT | Excellence in Research | |
| Dr | Sanjib Kumar | Nayak | VSSUT Burla | India | Computer Science | Cloud Computing and Computational Intelligence | Excellence in Research | |
| Assoc Prof Dr | Andreas | Schwingshackl | University of California Los Angeles | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Pediatric Critical Care | Excellence in Research | |
| Prof | Fujie | Zhang | Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University | China | Immunology and Microbiology | HIV Virology, HIV Immunology | Excellence in Research | |
| Prof | Tingzhong | Yang | Zhejiang University | China | Health Professions | Social Medicne | Excellence in Research | |
| Prof Dr | Ameen | Abu-Hashem | Faculty of science, Chemistry department, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia and Photochemistry department (Heterocyclic unit), Chemical Industrial Institute, National Research Centre, Egypt. | Saudi Arabia | Chemistry | Organic chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry | Excellence in Research | |