Author

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 performance models, performance tools and parallel simulation frameworks, with a focus on first-principles performance modeling of distributed-memory parallel programs in high-performance computing. She further conducts research in multi-core and parallel architectures, parallel computing and algorithms, parallel programming models, modern C++, and domain-specific languages. She is a member of the program committees of major international conferences and the co-chair of workshops and conference programs.

Ayesha has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and scored First Place in the ISC PhD Forum Award 2021 that honors outstanding PhD work. She was named in 100 Future Leaders Role Model List in 2022 and 2023 supported by Yahoo Finance and YouTube, respectively, and she won the WearetheCity’s Global Award for Achievement 2023.