Ayesha Afzal is a researcher at the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU), Germany. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Computational Engineering. Her PhD research lies at the crossroads of analytic first- principles performance models, performance tools and parallel simulation frameworks in high- performance computing. She does research in High-Performance Computing, Multi-Core and Parallel Architectures and Programming Models, Domain-Specific Languages, Modern C++ (C++11/14/17), and Object-Oriented Template Meta-Programming.
Ayesha contributes to significant scientific community events as a chair, vice-chair, program committee member, journal reviewer, panelist and active speaker. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, received Best Short Paper Award in the PMBS'23 workshop at the Supercomputing Conference, and scored First Place in the ISC'21 PhD Forum Award that honors outstanding PhD work. She was named in 100 Top Future Leaders Role Model List in 2022 and 2023 supported by Yahoo Finance and YouTube, respectively, and won the WearetheCity's Global Award for Achievement 2023.
