• Master thesis
  Development of a benchmark suite for investigating MPI communication behavior (2019)

• Bachelor thesis
  Integration of chip-level performance models into a parallel simulation framework (2021)

Ayesha Afzal is contributing as a poster vice-chair in the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis SC - 2024.

Conference date: Nov 17, 2024 -- Nov 22, 2024
Conference location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States 

Ayesha Afzal is contributing as a WHPC poster co-chair in the International High Performance Conference ISC - 2024.

Conference date: May 12, 2024 -- May 16, 2024
Conference location: Hamburg, Germany 

Ayesha Afzal is contributing as a workshop co-chair in the 4th annual workshop on Performance EngineeRing, Modelling, Analysis, and VisualizatiOn STrategy, PERMAVOST - 2024.

Workshop held in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2024
Workshop date: June 4, 2024
Workshop location: Pisa, Italy 

Ayesha Afzal contributed as a workshop co-chair in the 3rd annual workshop on Performance EngineeRing, Modelling, Analysis, and VisualizatiOn STrategy, PERMAVOST - 2023.

Workshop held in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2023
Workshop date: June 20, 2023
Workshop location: Orlando, Florida, United States 

Ayesha Afzal is serving as a workshop mentoring co-chair in the 16th annual workshop on Women in High Performance Computing, WHPC - 2023. 

Workshop held in conjunction with SC 2023
Workshop date: November 13, 2023
Workshop location: Denver, Colorado, United States 

Ayesha Afzal served as a reviewer in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, TPDS - 2022.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) is published monthly. TPDS's 2021 impact factor is 3.757.
Editor-in-Chief: Manish Parashar

TPDS publishes a range of papers, comments on previously published papers, and survey articles that deal with the parallel and distributed systems research areas of current importance to the readers. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to, parallel and distributed algorithms, architectures, software, and applications.

• Ayesha Afzal is serving as a Committee member for Technical Papers in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER) - 2024.
  (Kobe, Japan, 2024-9-27 2023-9-24)

• Ayesha Afzal is serving as a Committee member for Technical Papers in the Proceedings of the Euro-Par WHPC Session - 2024.
  (Madrid, SPAIN, 2024-06-26 2024-08-30)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Technical Papers in the Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) - 2023.
  (Denver, CO, USA, 2023-11-12 2023-11-17)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Technical Papers in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER) - 2023.
  (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2023-10-31 2023-11-3)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Technical Papers in the Proceedings of the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) - 2023.
  (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2023-8-10 2023-8-7)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Technical Papers in the Proceedings of the 7th High Performance Computing and Cluster Technologies Conference (HPCCT) - 2023.
  (Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, 2023-7-9 2023-7-7)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Awards of CS Teaching Excellence Awards and CSTA/ACM Cutler-Bell Prize category by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) - 2023. 

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Research Posters in the Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) - 2023.
  (Denver, CO, USA, 2023-11-12 2023-11-17)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a Committee member for Research Papers in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Performance, Portability and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC) - 2023.
  (Denver, CO, USA, 2023-11-12 2023-11-17)

• Ayesha Afzal served as a reviewer in the ACM/CSTA 2022 Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing.
  (Chicago, United States, 2022-07-14 2022-07-17)

The received 33 eligible nominations were carefully reviewed for the ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing prize, which is designed to recognize talented high school students intending to continue their higher education in the areas of computer science or technology. The program seeks to promote and encourage computer science and empower young and aspiring learners to pursue computing challenges outside of the traditional classroom environment. Judges looked for submissions that demonstrate ingenuity, complexity, relevancy, originality, and a desire to further computer science as a discipline. The prize is made available through a $1 million endowment established by David Cutler and Gordon Bell. Up to four winners will each be awarded a $10,000 prize and a trip to the ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize Reception.

• Ayesha Afzal served as a reviewer in the Annual Conference of Computer Science Teachers Association, CSTA - 2022.
  (Chicago, United States, 2022-07-14 2022-07-17)

Multiple submissions were carefully reviewed for the workshop, poster, birds of a feather, mini-session, and breakout session types. 

• Ayesha Afzal served as a reviewer in the Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS - 2018.
  (Braunschweig, Germany, 2018-04-09 2018-04-12)

The proceedings of ARCS 2018 are published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, Vol 10793.
Editors: Berekovic, M., Buchty, R., Hamann, H., Koch, D., Pionteck, T. (Eds.)

The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. ARCS has always been a conference attracting leading-edge research outcomes in Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, including a wide spectrum of topics ranging from embedded and real-time systems all the way to large-scale and parallel systems.