| Mr | Justin | Eichinger | University of Louisville | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Dermatology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Chad | Sloss | Wittenberg University | United States | Social Sciences | Higher Education/Diversity | Excellence in Research | View Profile |
| Dr | Kailu | Xiao | Texas A&M University | United States | Engineering | Impact dynamics | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Nancy | Gerber | Florida State University/Drexel University | United States | Psychology | Art Psychotherapy/Doctoral Education | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | John | Ramirez Avila | Mississippi State University | United States | Environmental Science | Environmental Hydrology | Excellence in Research | View Profile |
| Prof. Dr | Jonathan | Wells | University of Michigan | United States | Arts and Humanities | History of America in the 19thc | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Nagavendra | Kommineni | Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council | United States | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Ahmad | Partaw | University of South Florida | United States | Social Sciences | political science and International Relations | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Emmanuel | Baidhe | North Dakota State University | United States | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Grain drying | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Duo | Xu | Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia | United States | Physics and Astronomy | Astronomy image segmentation | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Amita | Datta-Mannan | Eli Lilly & Company | United States | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | Clinical Pharmacology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Neetika | Garg | University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Nephrology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Emmanuel | Jauregui | Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | United States | Medicine and Dentistry | Pediatric Otolaryngology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Assist Prof Dr | Minseok | Ryu | Arizona State University | United States | Energy | Power Systems Computation | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Shana | Stites | University of Pennsylvania | United States | Psychology | Alzheimer's Disease | Leadership in Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Ms | Jordan | Kerere | University of Virginia | United States | Psychology | School Psychology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Hoyong | Chung | FAMU-FSU College of Engineering | United States | Materials Science | Polymer Science | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Krystyna | Nowak-Fabrykowski | Central Michigan University | United States | Social Sciences | Education | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Adib | Mahmoodi Nasrabadi | Florida Atlantic University | United States | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Upendra | Sainju | USDA-ARS, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, Sidney, MT 59270 | United States | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Soil Science | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |