Winner of First Place in the Best Research Poster Award 2025, including the cash prize of 500 euros, at the ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE platform. The award honors the most outstanding research posters selected by the posters committee and is sponsored by Springer.

Received the 2023 Best Paper Runner-Up Award at the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Journal.

Research poster selected as a Best Research Poster Finalist at the Supercomputing Conference SC24.

Received the Best Short Paper Award at the PMBS23 workshop held in conjunction with the Supercomputing Conference SC23.

Named twice in the Top 100 Future Leaders Role Model List 2023 and 2024, supported by YouTube.

Winner of the Global Award for Achievement 2023 by WeAreTheCity's Rising Star Awards.

Named in the 100 Future Leaders Role Model List 2022, supported by Yahoo Finance.

Winner of First Place in the PhD Forum Award 2021, including the cash prize of 600 euros, at the ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE platform. The award honors the most outstanding PhD work and is sponsored by Springer.

Finalist of the Data Scientist Award'21-22 and Young Female STEM Pioneer Award'21 at the Diversity in Tech Awards, sponsored by AWS.

Received the HiPEAC 2018 Paper Award from the Steering Committee of the HiPEAC Network.

Second rank in the Fastest Scientific Computing Performance Challenge at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

First place in Intermediate Pre-Engineering at Queen Mary College Lahore, Pakistan.

Founder and committee lead of the NHR Women in HPC (NHR|WHPC) chapter. 

Featured in 2018 for my research paper in the Developer Blog by Codeplay.

Featured in 2021 as “The Researcher Mom” on the "Research in Bavaria" website by the "Bavarian Ministry of Science and Art" to motivate work-life balance.

Featured in 2022 for my research work in Quartl Magazine, Number 102.

Featured in 2022 as “The Eectrical Engineer Shifting to Computer Science” in the "Computing Crossroads" website by "ACM SIGCSE" to encourage an openness for multidimensionality in the career. 

Featured in 2023 as "Mentor in the LMF Mentoring Program" in the "Spotlight Profile" series by the "Like Minded Females (LMF) Network" to inspire women to pursue STEM disciplines and to mentor future scientists.

Featured in 2025 as part of the Vanguards of HPC‑AI series — "Erlangen HPC Center’s Ayesha Afzal and the Acceleration of Science," sportlighting HPC-AI Current and Future Leaders.

Featured in 2025 in the ISC 40th Anniversary article — “Connecting the Dots with Ayesha Afzal”, highlighting how it's not just about technology, but the invisible threads across personal journeys, disciplinary shifts, and evolving scientific identities.

Vice Chair at professional societies, such as IEEE Computer Society Germany Section Chapter.

Chair or Vice Chair at the International Conferences and Workshops, including poster vice-chair of the Supercomputing Conference 2024, publicity chair of the ICPP Conference 2024, WHPC poster Chair of the ISC High Performance Conference 2024-2025, Chair of the ACM HPDC PERMAVOST workshop 2023-2025, and mentoring co-chair of the WHPC@SC workshop 2023.

Scientific program committee member of the International Conference Proceedings and reviewer of the journals, including SC, CLUSTER, ICPP, HPCCT, ANNSIM, CS, CSTA, LNCS, TPDS, and others (see list).

Panelist at the panel discussion on "Women in HPC: Empowering Future Careers" at the first NHR Conference in 2023.

Author of multiple peer-reviewed publications (see list).

Speaker at various international conferences and events (see list).

Tutor of different courses at international research institutes  (see list).

Supervisor of undergrad and master theses (see list).

Recipient of the Innovation Alliance 4.0 Sponsorship 2021 to recruit student assistance. The sponsorship aims to motivate outstanding female doctoral candidates for an academic career.

Recipient of the ACM SIGHPC Travel Grant 2022 and served as a Volunteer for the PASC22 and SC22 conferences.

CSTA Awards Committee member 2022-2023, and advisory board member, ambassador, mentor and reviewer at various international channels promoting women in STEM (see list).