Presenter

Ayesha Afzal is a researcher at the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU). She holds a Master's degree in Computational Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Her Ph.D. focuses on analytic performance models, performance tools, and parallel simulation frameworks. Ayesha is actively involved in projects such as KONHIR with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre and NHR's EEC initiative on enhancing energy efficiency and managing operational costs across NHR centers.

At IEEE Computer Society, she serves as vice chair of both the Germany Section Chapter and Region 8 Area 2. She is the founder of the NHR Women in HPC chapter, organizes workshops like EESP at ISC and PERMAVOST at ACM HPDC. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and regularly contributes to scientific community events as a chair, vice chair, program committee member, journal reviewer, panelist, and speaker. She has earned honors including the First Place in ISC PhD Forum Award (2021), IEEE TPDS Best Paper Runner-up Award (2023), SC PMBS Best Short Paper Award (2023), SC Best Research Poster Finalist (2024) and 1st place in ISC Best Research Poster Award (2025). She was named a Top 100 Future Leader List (2022–2024) and won WeAreTheCity’s Global Achievement Award (2023).