| Prof | Tim | Sandle | UCL | United Kingdom | Innovative research award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Dr | Hoon | Choi | NREL | United States | Best Researcher Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Dr | Stefan | Kreuzer | INOV8 Research | United States | Best Researcher Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Dr | Hao | Zhang | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | Best Researcher Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Dr | Mohd Ahmar | Rauf | University of Michigan | United States | Best Researcher Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Dr | Chaitanya Kumar | Mankala | Villanova University | United States | Best Computer Engineering Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Prof | Arash | Rahmatian | University of Houston-Downtown | United States | Research Excellence Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Mr | Nauman | Ahmed | Mississippi State University | United States | Research Excellence Award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Prof | Ali | Alouani | Tennessee Tech University | United States | Innovative research award | engineeringscientist.com |
| Dr | Mark | Shahin | Penn State Hershey Medical Center | United States | Research Excellence Award | engineeringscientist.com |