| Mrs | Florentina Laura | Chiriac | INCD-ECOIND | Romania | Environmental Data Analysis | Emerging contaminants | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Mrs | Maryam | Al-Hail | Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar | Real-world Case Studies | Sustainable Education | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Shikha | Patel | Qatar University | Qatar | Smart Cities and Urban Analytics | urban planning | Women Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Abdul Hakeem | Anwer | Qatar University | Qatar | Environmental Data Analysis | Energy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Abdelbary | Elhissi | Qatar University | Qatar | engineering | Drug Delivery / Nanotechnology | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Mona | Al-Thani | Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar | Government and Public Policy Analysis | Governance resilience, mega-sport event planning, policy analysis, sustainability, qualitative case study | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Mr | Mohammad Mominur | Rahman | Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar | Quantitative Research | Human Computer Interaction | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Talita | Loureiro | CCDRN/UTAD | Portugal | others | Microbiology | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof Dr | Jorge | Duque | ISLA - Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology | Portugal | Innovation in Data Analysis | Data Mining e Machine Learning | Global Data Innovation Recognition Award | View Profile |
| Prof Dr | José | Cunha-Vaz | AIBILI - Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image | Portugal | Temporal Data Patterns | Diabetic Retinopathy | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof | Raquel | Gaspar | ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa | Portugal | Financial Data Analysis | Financial Markets | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Joao | Oliveira | Department of Physics, University of Aveiro | Portugal | Network Analysis Real-time Data Streams | graph theory, complex networks | Best Researcher Award | |
| Evangelina | Bonifácio | VALORIZA – Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre | Portugal | Others | teaching profession | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Isabel | Sierra-Garcia | University of Aveiro | Portugal | Domain-integrated Analysis | Data analysis | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof Dr | Vasco | Barbosa | University Polytechnic Viana do Castelo | Portugal | Spatial Data Analysis | urban planning | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Prof Dr | Armando | Duarte | niversity of Aveiro | Portugal | Environmental Data Analysis | Environmental Analytical Chemistry | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Pedro | Sousa | CHUC | Portugal | Healthcare Data Analysis | Atrial fibrillation ablation | Best Researcher Award | View Profile |
| Dr | Carlos | Martins | SerQ - Centro de Inovação e Competências da Floresta | Portugal | engineering | Estruturas de Madeira | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Prof Dr | Maria | Guerra | Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Universidade do Porto | Portugal | Descriptive Analytics | Saúde Materna | Research Excellence Award | View Profile |
| Assist Prof Dr | Katarzyna | Rudnik | Opole University of Technology, Poland | Poland | Predictive Modeling Innovations | Predictive Modeling in Uncertainty | Best Researcher Award | |